This Quality Sets You in the Right Direction.4 min read
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If you are committed to being an Ordinary Visionary, certain qualities are absolutely necessary.
Last week, I wrote about patience as the underlying mindset that will help you stay on track and move forward with calm determination to make a difference.
The next, perhaps more obvious quality, is …
CLARITY of VISION
This is more than goal-setting. It’s a firm, unshakable stand to move your vision forward – even if you don’t know how.
It’s not so much about the perfect words, although those certainly help. It’s more about a feeling and idea that lives in your heart and mind. When you have that kind of vision and clarity, the full power of your being begins to orient towards that vision.
When you think, feel, live, breathe, and dream your vision, it starts to unfold in your life naturally, almost effortlessly. You don’t have to push your vision—it pulls you.
I have always found that reading quotes about an idea helps make that idea clearer and clearer.*
Here are 25 quotes about Vision and Clarity, highlighting their importance in fulfilling one’s vision and making a difference:
1. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
2. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver
3. “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb
4. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh
5. “To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.” – Seneca
6. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” – Brian Tracy
7. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
8. “The only limits are, as always, those of vision.” – James Broughton
9. “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
10. “It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.” – Vance Havner
11. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
12. “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” – Lao Tzu
13. “Someone without a vision for their future always returns to their past.” – Anonymous
14. “The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.” – Dennis Gabor
15. “Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you first imagine it.” – George Lucas
16. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh
17. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch
18. “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
19. “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift
20. “Vision is the true creative rhythm of life.” – Robert Delaunay
21. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
22. “In order to carry a positive action, we must develop a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama
23. “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” – Winston Churchill
24. “A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde
25. “The vision precedes positive results. It doesn’t get tacked on as an afterthought on the way to the victory stand.” – Bill Walsh
So, what’s your Vision? Dream about it. Think about it. Articulate it. Write about it. Share it with others. Play with it. Have fun with it. Act on it.
*When I started my business some 40 years ago, I subscribed to a little 24-page publication called Bits and Pieces (now https://bitsandpieces.biz) that contained inspirational and motivational quotes on several topics.
One day I copied every quote I could find on success and typed them out on several pieces of paper. I read them over and over and over until my doubts and fears of being a success going out on my own dissipated and were replaced by confident thoughts that I could make it on my own terms.
These articles revisit that practice. I hope you find them useful and inspiring. Let me know what you think.
Cheers, Robert
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