Quotes About Vision

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world. On

Crossan's view of Jesus sounds very familiar as a result of our survey. Jesus was a Jewish cynic peasant with an alternative social vision.

Democracy can no longer ignore the future.

If a person cannot imagine a future, then we would say that that person is depressed. But fi a country cannot envision a future, how do we describe its condition?

A Christian leader is a person of influence. He or she follows God's vision for his or her life, and influences others to follow God's plan for their lives.

If you don't have a dream that leads you to greater dependence on God, then you need to get a bigger dream!

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. —Thucydides

Blood of the Martyrs The quotations on the facing page present two opposing viewpoints, both by Catholics. Only one is right. We learn the truth from John's vision and from history. The woman astride the beast is "drunken with the blood of the

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. JAPANESE PROVERB

The Bible says in Habakkuk 2:2, "Write the vision and make it plain." The written goal is the breakfast of champions. You just can't do big things without making your goals specific, measurable, yours, with a time limit, and in writing.

15 percent of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85 percent was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.

Only if you mix knowledge with attitude, character, perseverance, vision, diligence, and extreme levels of work will your college degree produce for you.

Good to Great by my friend Jim Collins.

Goals convert vision into energy. When you lay out exactly what you want to do in detail, you immediately start feeling the room move and the earth shake. You are pulled into your new life like some scene from a movie. Goals help make great men. J. C. Penney once said, "Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.

We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision

should always be dreaming. Dreaming is a sign you have hope.

Businesses and entrepreneurs have become experts at microwaving rather than Crock-Potting their business plan. They are so worried about the moment, Q1 or Q2, that they lose their vision and their soul. They trade real, rich, abiding, deep success for the momentary win and then are constantly having to start over. Have a long-term vision and execute it. As the billionaire advised me, slow and steady wins the race.

In studying successful people, the author discovered that 15 percent of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85 percent was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Yogi Berra, the fabled Yankee baseball player and manager, was said to have pointed out, "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else." That is so true about brands; you need to know where they are to end up.

P&G is known on Wall Street as a firm which takes a long-term view of its brand profitability.

the development of brand equity can create associations that can drive market positions, persist over long time periods, and be capable of resisting aggressive competitors. However, it can also involve an initial and ongoing investment which can be substantial and will not necessarily result in short-term profits. Payoffs, when they come, can involve decades. Thus, management of brand equity is difficult, requiring patience and vision.