Vision Quotes

[Kevin Rayner]

Quotes about Vision

• If you miss an opportunity, do not cloud your eyes with tears; keep your vision clear so that you will not miss the next one. unknown 
• So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America. Thomas Wolfe
• Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. S. D. Gordon
• He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time. Thomas Carlyle
• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann
• 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
• Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time. J. A. C. Brown 
• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie
• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx (1890-1977); US actor.
• If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations. Shakti Gawain
• If you miss an opportunity, do not cloud your eyes with tears. Keep your vision clear so that you will not miss the next one. unknown
• I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix. Tony Campolo
• Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. Stevie Wonder
• People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives. Stedman Graham
• Television has raised writing to a new low.  Samuel Goldwyn 
• Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. David Frost (1939) British TV presenter.
• 'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone. John Selden
• Vision is the ability to see what is not yet, so you can create what never was… Doug Firebaugh
• Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathon Swift
• Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see. Berkeley Rice (New York Times Magazine, March 17, 1968) 
• Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung
• It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. --Henry David Thoreau

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