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Inspirational Quotes About Vision

Whether they were heroes, poets, scholars, or leaders, the brightest minds in human history have thought and written about values and their meanings. Use the search field on the left to search our quotation database by author, value, or specific word contained in the quote.

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“Make hatred hated!”
Anatole France
(1844-1924); Critic, Writer

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“Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.”
Edward de Bono
(born 1933); Psychologist, Physician

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“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see. And pursuing that vision.”
Howard Schultz
(born 1953); Businessman, Entrepreneur

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“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”
Sir Thomas Browne
(1605-1682); Scholar, Essayist

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“To keep from getting to far ahead of myself, I can apply to life what I've learned from running in the woods: The step in front of you is the most important one.”
Annie Morris
Mom, Runner, Writer

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“Variety is the spice of life.”
American Proverb

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“Imagination is the true magic carpet. ”
Norman Vincent Peale
(1898-1993); Preacher, Author

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“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.”
Mohandas Gandhi
(1869-1948); Indian Political And Spiritual Leader

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“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Jonathan Swift
Author

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“Our grand duty is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Thomas Carlyle
(1795-1881); Essayist, Satirist, Historian

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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889-1964); 1st Prime Minister Of India

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“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke
(1917-2008); Science Fiction Author, Inventor

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“The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.”
John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963); 35th Us President

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“The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).”
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900); Scholar, Writer, Philosopher

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“The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.”
Adlin Sinclair
Motivational Author, Humanitarian

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“When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell
(1847-1922); Inventor

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“We shall not cease from exploration; And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.”
T.S. Eliot
(1888-1965); Poet, Critic

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“I will speak to a youth which can accomplish everything, precisely because it accepts no past, obeys no present, and fears no future.”
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936); Poet, Author

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“What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
Henry Miller
(1891-1980); Author, Writer

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“I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union 'Twixt Nature's heart and mine.”
George Linnaeus  Banks
(1821-1881); Writer

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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889-1964); 1st Prime Minister Of India

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“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”
Joel A. Barker

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“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others…that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”
Clifford Geertz
(1926-2006); Anthropologist

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“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
Albert Einstein
(1875-1955); Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner

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