BEST 50 VISION QUOTES BY GREAT MINDS. 1. "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." – **Jonathan Swift** 2. "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." – **Helen Keller** 3. "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." – **Carl Jung** 4. "A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more." – **Rosabeth Moss Kanter** 5. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." – **Proverbs 29:18** 6. "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision." – **Helen Keller** 7. "Vision is the capacity to create a compelling picture of the desired state of affairs that inspires people to perform." – **Burt Nanus** 8. "A vision is a vivid idea of what the future could be, powered by the passion to make it so." 9. "Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith." – **Stephen S. Wise** 10. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – **Eleanor Roosevelt** On Vision, Action, and Execution 11. "A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement." – **Bo Bennett** 12. "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." – **Joel A. Barker** 13. "Great vision without great people is irrelevant." – **Jim Collins** 14. "The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching." – **Dennis Green** (on executing a vision) 15. "To bring a vision to life, you must first give it legs, then a path, and finally, relentless forward motion." 16. "A goal is a dream with a deadline." – **Napoleon Hill** 17. "Strategy is choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value." – **Michael Porter** (on executing a vision) 18. "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." – **Peter Marshall** 19. "The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs." – **Vance Havner** 20. "Execution is the chariot of genius." – **William Blake** On Vision, Leadership, and Influence 21. "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion." – **Theodore Hesburgh** 22. "Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." – **Jack Welch** 23. "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." – **Warren Bennis** 24. "A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there." – **David R. Gergen** 25. "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." – **Antoine de Saint-Exupéry** 26. "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." – **Kenneth Blanchard** (on selling the vision) 27. "Vision is the spark that ignites the fire of passion in a team." 28. "People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." – **John C. Maxwell** 29. "A shared vision is not an idea... it is a force in people's hearts, a force of impressive power." – **Peter Senge** 30. "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." – **Ronald Reagan** On Innovation and Seeing Differently 31. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – **Steve Jobs** 32. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." – **Walt Disney** 33. "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." – **Apple's "Think Different" Campaign** 34. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." – **Steve Jobs** 35. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." – **Marcel Proust** 36. "It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen." – **Scott Belsky** 37. "Vision is seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought." 38. "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." – **William Gibson** 39. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – **John D. Rockefeller** 40. "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." – **Henry Ford** Short, Punchy, and Powerful Vision Quotes 41. "See it. Believe it. Build it." 42. "Dream big. Start small. Act now." 43. "What you see is what you get." 44. "If you can dream it, you can do it." – **Walt Disney** 45. "Vision precedes reality." 46. "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." – **Theodore Roosevelt** 47. "Clarity of vision is clarity of purpose." 48. "Don't wait for the future. Create it." 49. "Your limitation—it's only your imagination." 50. "The horizon is only the limit of our sight." – **William Drummond**