Vision Quotes - Page 19

A lesson in bringing about true changes of mind and heart comes from a Japanese functionary. By day, he crunched numbers that showed his country was approaching imminent energy crisis and helped to craft policy. By night, he weaved a novel in which a bureaucrat-hero helps see the country through to new energy sources. When the crisis came faster than he expected, he actually put the novel away because he did not want to make the burden of his countrymen worse. When the short-term crisis passed, he published his novel. It's phenomenal and well-timed success fueled the vision that inspired difficult change and maintained a sense of urgency.

Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success.

Hitherto I had been convinced that my friend wanted to become an artist, a painter, or perhaps an architect. Now this was no longer the case. Now he aspired to something higher, which I could not yet fully grasp. It rather surprised me, as I thought that the vocation of the artist was for him the highest, most desirable goal. But now he was talking of a mandate which, one day, he would receive from the people, to lead them out of servitude to the heights of freedom.It was an unknown youth who spoke to me in that strange hour. He spoke of a special mission which one day would be entrusted to him, and I, his only listener, could hardly understand what he meant. Many years had to pass before I realized the significance of this enraptured hour for my friend.

Start every day by making a list of all the experiences you will fill your day with and make an effort.

Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

The reward for all battles should always be greater than the sacrifice you have to make.

The most important relationship in your life should be your relationship with yourself.

Youths are our arrows to the future.

Don’t stoop, don’t stop & don’t be tired in front of any circumstances; with continuous efforts & self introspection aim so high that shall take you to the top of the world

A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!

Lack of courage is what makes big dreams to sit in the ink of the paper instead of them running in the shoes of actions. Without courage, you remain a dreamer!

There is an angel within you waiting to be released.

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward.

Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.

Achieving a goal is not the most important part of the process. The destination should never be your primary purpose or objective.

Indecision is a decision not to use life’s first gift to you – the power of choice.

To succeed, you have to say ‘no’ more often than you say ‘yes’. This is easier when you have a definite purpose or clarity on the desired outcome.

Focus comes from a promise of the future, and therefore the strength and longevity of your focus will seldom exceed the strength of your purpose, vision, dreams or goal.

The future belongs to believers.

Never give up on the possibilities or accept what is when you can see it for what it could be.

Pursue your dreams with all your strength.

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.

You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world.

The everyday actions of average citizens have a greater impact on society than any politician. Unfortunately politicians exert a disproportionate amount of influence on the actions of the average citizen. If we all use our own ability to positively influence the people around us, time will erode the negative impact of any politician.

Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician, and had a very proper idea of the great advantages which would accrue to the world if we could establish the fact that yellow fever was conveyed by the mosquito, and his medical training made him a very competent judge as to the steps necessary to establish such fact. General Wood during the whole course of the investigations took the greatest interest in the experiments, and assisted the Board in every way he could.

The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are affected in the first place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simplified, being reduced to four andsoon to two colours; finally a grey monochrome stage is reached, although the pathological colour is never identifiable with any normal one. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions ‘the loss of nervous substance results not only in a deficiency of certain qualities, but in the change to a less differentiated and more primitive structure’.

Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them.

A vision is a clear sound in a noisy world.

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

You haven’t done your best yet because you haven’t seen the best you can do yet. You are where you are now because you haven’t seen where you can be yet. If you see, your attitude, thought and tactics towards life will definitely change

Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate, but it is crafted hard by the hands of God.

The value of time lies in its brevity. To use it effectively, you must know its value.

Your Hands And Feet Gets Your MindTo Where It Wants To Be!

…[S]uddenly your eye, which was already preparing itself for larger dimensions, goes about willingly with little, hesitating, hearkening steps over the many overgrown paths of a long dead experience and stands still by all its landmarks reverently and respectfully. And has forgotten the world, and has no world but a face. I know exactly everything you said then. The figure of the old lady who speaks rarely and reservedly, who hides her hands when a gesture of tenderness would move them, and who only with rare caresses builds bridges to a few people, bridges that no longer exist when she draws back her arm and lies again like an island fantastically repeated on all sides in the mirror of motionless waters. My eyes too were already caught up in the radiance and bound to great and deep beauties.”―from letter to Clara Westhoff Schmargendorf bei Berlin (October 18, 1900)

Failure is a snapshot of the present and never an indication of the final outcome or destination.

Your ability to support your plans with a great strategy is the master skill for success.

A well pursued vision defiles the forces of antagonist.

Avoid making important or long-term decisions when you are fatigued mentally, emotionally or physically.

You need to see a future with such clarity and desirability that you will go through all the uncomfortable things like throws at you to attain it.

Set a challenge for yourself and challenge yourself to set a challenge for others to challenge themselves. True strength, true wisdom, true tenacity and true courage is best seen when it is in motion! Take action!

In order to be successful you must decide to be intentional about what you do, how you live, and who you are becoming.

Success requires preparation and persistence effort.

Your ego does not need to be crushed, it needs to be redeemed.

The vision may be the destination but the journey began with a past which will stay connected whatever the sages may say against it - there is always a hyperlink.

Success comes with a promise and a price. The price has to be paid in full and in advance before the promise is fulfilled.

You have absolute control over your thoughts, and guarding your mind is a choice.

Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind.

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

The fulfillment of the vision is always for the appointed time.

You can do this by disciplining yourself to be selective in what you read, see, hear, say to yourself and the influence of others.

Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value.

If you pay the price for success, you win. If you avoid payment, you lose. It’s really that simple.

To succeed in life you need five things – a burning desire, a willingness to do whatever it takes, wisdom, incredible effort, and a commitment to never ending improvement.

Accepting complete responsibility is the unsung character trait of those who find uncommon success, and failure to accept responsibility is a common trait of those who end up with a mediocre life.

Don’t doubt your dreams.

Discipline is more about self-control through your inner strength and less about restriction.