Quotes on the Importance of Vision 

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.
— William Jennings Bryan

Vision without execution is hallucination.
— Thomas Edison

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
— Seneca

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
— Napoleon Hill

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
— James Allen

Big thinking precedes great achievement. 
— Wilferd Peterson

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
— Robert Fritz

The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
— Theodore Hesburgh

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
— Sören Kierkegaard

Create your future from your future, not your past.
— Werner Erhard

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they're always there.
— Norman Vincent Peale

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
— Alvin Toffler

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
— Warren Bennis

Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you are going.
— Unknown

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.
— Jim Rohn

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
— Sören Kierkegaard

To be a successful entrepreneur one needs a vision of greatness for one's work. If we dream extravagantly we will be inspired to forge a reality beyond the straight jacket of practicalities. There is a profound connection between art and enterprise which allows businesses to overcome the limitations of their existing visions.
— Sir Ernest Hall

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
— Michelangelo

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
— Andrew Carnegie

If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don't have enough goals.
— Lou Holtz

The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.
— Ted Levitt

A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.
— Louis Nizer

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way.
— Abraham Lincoln

Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
— George Lucas

Peak performers want more than merely to win the next game. They see all the way to the championship. They have a long-range goal that inspires commitment and action.
— Charles Garfield

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never scoring.
— Bill Copeland

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.
— Jack Nicklaus

Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
— Mia Hamm

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
— Henry David Thoreau

So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.
— Christopher Reeve

In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
— David Ben-Gurion.

There is no more powerful engine driving an organization toward excellence and long-range success than an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future, widely shared.
— Burt Nanus

The only way to predict the future is to have the power to shape it.
— Eric Hofer

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
— Father Theodore Hesburgh