Quotes About Vision

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise, one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor.

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.