Quotes About Vision

If we all got kicked off the staff and the board, and an outside group (a group of leaders who were fearlessly committed to the mission of this church) took our place, what changes would they introduce?68 What's the first thing they would do? Who would they replace? What would they refuse to fund?

Nothing hinders morale more than when team members with separate agendas are pulling against one another. When this happens, it's usually because those in charge have not taken the time necessary to clarify the win for their team.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls. LARRY CRABB Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. GOETHE

Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.

Vision always precedes preparation. Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.

The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees.

In this way, courage establishes leadership.

Leaders are not always the first to see the need for change, but they are the first to act. And once they move away from the pack, they are positioned to lead.

You can't lead without taking risk. You won't take risk without courage. Courage is essential to leadership.

As I listen to leaders tell their stories, I hear very little about strategic planning and goal setting. I hear a lot about identifying and acting on opportunities. Strategies and goals have their place. But they don't define leadership. Leaders see and seize opportunity. And in most cases, the opportunities take them by surprise.

The courage to dream always precedes the capital needed to finance the dream.

Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.

If your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for ten years, plant trees If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people. CHINESE PROVERB

In addition to a job description designed around your current employment, develop what you would consider to be the ultimate job description. This is for your eyes only. The goal of this exercise is to help you identify the niche in which you would feel most productive and consequently most successful. Dream a little.

If God has birthed a vision in you, he is in the process of developing a similar vision in the hearts of others around you.

VISIONEERING = INSPIRATION + CONVICTION + ACTION + DETERMINATION + COMPLETION

Keep in mind that everything you loathe about your current environment or organization was originally somebody's good idea.

The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

Sade's manicheistic dualism sees the world as irredeemably evil; vice must always prosper, virtue always despair. There is no hope for us as we are now.[...]Sade's vision is utterly without transcendence.

you see everything as though your eyes are going to lapse into tears.

And the light, I must apologise for the lack of light... a hereditary affliction of the eyes…