Inspirations

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

- Louisa May Alcott

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

- Charles L Allen

No vision and you perish, No Ideal, and you're lost, Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

- Harriet Du Autermont

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

- Joel A Barker

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

- Joel A Barker

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

- Proverbs 29:18, Bible

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

- William Blake

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

- Omar Nelson Bradley

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

- Dorothea Brande

You have to think big to be big.

- Claude M Bristol

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

- James Broughton

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

- Les Brown

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

- Harry Browne

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

- Daniel H Burnham

The road winds up the hill to meet the height, Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight, And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

- Emma Carleton

Aim for the highest.

- Andrew Carnegie

Vision, It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

- Robert Collier

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

- Calvin Coolidge

It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

- Stephen R Covey

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

- Joseph M Dodge

I always looked ahead.

- Chris Evert

The best vision is insight.

- Malcolm S Forbes

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

- Frank Gaines

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

- Mahatma Gandhi

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

- Michael E Gerber

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams, even if it takes a lifetime.

- Vijali Hamilton

Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

- Lyndon B Johnson

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakens.

- Carl Jung

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

- Casey Kasem

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

- Herbert Kaufman

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

- Helen Keller

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

- John F Kennedy

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

- Martin Luther King Junior

One eye sees, the other feels.

- Paul Klee

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it, Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

- Louis L Mann

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

- Orison Swett Marden

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

- Orison Swett Marden

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

- Orison Swett Marden

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

- Orison Swett Marden

Build it and they will come!

- Fields Of Dreams Movie

Faith is power to believe and power to see...

- Prentice Mulford

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

- Lewis Mumford

We go where our vision is.

- Joseph Edward Murphy

If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

- Sir Isaac Newton

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

- Earl Nightingale

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

- Japanese Proverb

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

- Ayn Rand

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

- Anthony Robbins

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

- Peter Schultz

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

- Charles M Schwab

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

- Charles M Schwab

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

- Pamela Vaull Starr

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

- Adlai E Stevenson

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

- Jonathan Swift

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

- Charles Swindoll

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

- Studs Terkel

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

- Henry David Thoreau

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

- Arnold Toynbee

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

- Brian Tracy

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

- James Ramsey Ullman

The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

- Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

- Source Unknown

Three levels of organizational vision, 1. The Do-able. 2. The Conceivable. 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

- Source Unknown

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing, where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows he was meant and made to do.

- Source Unknown

Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

- Source Unknown

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see, Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

- Source Unknown

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

- Source Unknown

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well, you'll hit higher.

- Source Unknown

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

- Source Unknown

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

- Source Unknown

Capital isn't scarce, vision is.

- Sam Walton

If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.

- Les Williams

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

- Woodrow T Wilson

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people leed better lives.

- Oprah Winfrey

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

- Stephen S Wise

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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Inspirational Quotations to Advance Spiritual Wellness

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

No vision and you perish, No Ideal, and you're lost, Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

You have to think big to be big.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

The road winds up the hill to meet the height, Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight, And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Aim for the highest.

Vision, It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.

I always looked ahead.

The best vision is insight.

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

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams, even if it takes a lifetime.

Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakens.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

One eye sees, the other feels.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it, Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Build it and they will come!

Faith is power to believe and power to see...

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

We go where our vision is.

If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. Breaking rocks, the first replied. Earning my living, the second said. Helping to build a cathedral, said the third.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Three levels of organizational vision, 1. The Do-able. 2. The Conceivable. 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

Dwell in though upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see, Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well, you'll hit higher.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

Capital isn't scarce, vision is.

If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people leed better lives.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.