Leadership Vision Quotes

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. ~ Steve Jobs

When you empower your people, your business will be grow. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Ideas love speed ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world. ~ John O. Brennan

Creative expansion cannot happen without vision. ~ Pearl Zhu

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. ~ Ken Blanchard

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them. ~ Stephen Covey

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere. ~ Ronald Reagan

Emotional intelligence is the foundation of leadership. It balances flexibility with toughness, vision with passion, compassion with justice. ~ Amit Ray

He (Peter) doesn't know if he's looking into the eyes of a madman, or the eyes of a King. ~ Roma Downey

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team. ~ Orrin Woodward

Don't set your sights low, just because someone else has a limited view of life's possibilities. One person's comfort zone may be another person's cage. ~ Eleanor Brownn

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress. ~ Lee Kuan Yew

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it. ~ Marcia Whicker

Sight is seeing with the eyes; vision is seeing with the mind. ~ Orrin Woodward

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength. ~ Catherine Robinson-Walker

Gamers can feel when developers are passionate about their games. They can smell it like a dog smells fear. Don't be afraid to hold onto your unique vision: just be aware that it may not turn out exactly how you envisioned. ~ Scott Rogers

Vision is a future state of beings. ~ Pearl Zhu

Leadership vision is built on the leader's authenticity. ~ Pearl Zhu

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means. ~ Thomas E. Mann

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it. ~ Bill Hybels

Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless. ~ Farshad Asl

Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own. ~ Roy Bennett

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls. ~ Larry Crabb

Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges of an opportunity-saturated workplace that demands tough calls at every step. ~ Julie Morgenstern

He's got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist. ~ Jack Finney

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. ~ Warren G. Bennis

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. ~ Jack Welch

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity. ~ Adam Schiff

By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things. ~ David J. Greer

Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege. ~ Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Vision sees what could be. ~ Johnny Hunt

Vision without implementation is counterproductive. ~ Douglas B. Reeves

The towering genius is not apolitical. ~ Richard Brookhiser

I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides ~ Frank Herbert

Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our effectiveness, our responsiveness. As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others. These qualities of caring and responsiveness are the greatest gift we can offer. ~ Tarthang Tulku

Lead competently.
Lead productively.
Lead skillfully.
Lead excellently. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Kissinger traces the balances made in foreign policy, including that of realism and idealism, from the times of Cardinal Richelieu through chapters on Theodore Roosevelt the realist and Woodrow Wilson the idealist. Kissinger, a European refugee who has read Metternich more avidly than Jefferson, is unabashedly in the realist camp. "No other nation," he wrote in Diplomacy, "has ever rested its claim to international leadership on its altruism." Other Americans might proclaim this as a point of pride; when Kissinger says it, his attitude seems that of an anthropologist examining a rather unsettling tribal ritual. The practice of basing policy on ideals rather than interests, he pointed out, can make a nation seem dangerously unpredictable. ~ Walter Isaacson

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth. ~ Evelyn Underhill

The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do. ~ Jim George

I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership. ~ Laozi

Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture. ~ Tony Dovale

In its essence, the transitional stage of Shifting is when we wonder if maybe there is much more to the spiritual life than we've ever been taught, if the wild ways of Jesus are even really possible, or if we could possibly find life outside of going to church. We start dreaming of a place or way we could use our creativity and gifts without being controlled by the church or someone else's leadership. We long to engage in more meaningful relationships instead of superficial ones. We want to spend time hanging out with our neighbors instead of only church people (and without any kind of evangelism agenda). While desires look different for each of us, Shifting is about no longer feeling comfortable in our spiritual skin. ~ Kathy Escobar

I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are not only perishing but will inevitably perish. On the other hand ... I am not and cannot be a universalist. Between these extremes I cherish and hope the majority of the human race will be be saved. And I have a solid biblical basis for this belief. ~ John Stott

I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful. ~ Margaret Hamburg

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.' ~ Jeffrey R. Immelt

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being. ~ Francis Chan

When there is a genuine vision (as opposed to the all-too-familiar "vision statement"), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to. But many leaders have personal visions that never get translated into shared visions that galvanize an organization. All too often, a company's shared vision ~ Peter M. Senge

She fought off a T-rex with just a pepper spray and bad language. You couldn't be in better hands. ~ Jodi Taylor

I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve. ~ David Byrne

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in. ~ David Rubenstein

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use. ~ Sylvia Plath

I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ~ Don Shula

Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences. ~ John Baldoni

One cannot say that a major poet writes better poems than a minor; on the contrary the chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor.... To qualify as major, a poet, it seems to me, must satisfy about three and a half of the following five conditions.

1. He must write a lot.
2. His poems must show a wide range in subject matter and treatment.
3. He must exhibit an unmistakable originality of vision and style.
4. He must be a master of verse technique.
5. In the case of all poets we distinguish between their juvenilia and their mature work, but [the major poet's] process of maturing continues until he dies.... ~ W. H. Auden

A leader's purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience. ~ Farshad Asl

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program. ~ Wendy Kopp

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny. ~ Bradford Winters

The leader feels the pulse of a burning passion and communicates that heat at every opportunity. He or she lives the dream, breathes the vision, sleeps the mission, and eats the goals every day. The leader shares those goals all the time with everyone. It is a vibration the entire organization can feel. ~ Phil Pringle

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible. ~ Nelson Mandela

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go. ~ Jim Rohn

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack. ~ Tom Rooney

He tracks the rise and fall of the glittering darkness thronged with specks and tendrils of luminous secrets. Falling stars crackle in the cold air and prickle his skin. They flash in the corner of his vision where the eye's discernment of light and shadow is most acute. ~ John Pipkin

To govern was to serve, not to rule. ~ Seneca The Younger

Your past is your ancestors and your life history. The wise ones do not ignore or forget that. It teaches and leads one to the vision for new ways. ~ Ehsan Sehgal

For almost one hundred years, leaders of the white South managed to freeze race relations and racial ideology in something close to the Confederate pattern, thus demonstrating that the passage of time by itself does not erase a conflicted past. Elite southern men and women created an ideology of the Lost Cause that wrapped antebellum society, the Confederacy, Reconstruction, and postwar racism in the mantle of a protective, laudatory myth. The Lost Cause portrayed the white South as cultured, chivalrous, and superior while making the North into the aggressor - crude, unprincipled, and vindictive.

[...] Even after 1900 the Lost Cause ideology continued to gain strength under the leadership of a new generation, until most southern whites came to believe that their history and the myth were identical [75 - 76]. ~ Paul D. Escott

A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed. ~ Denis Waitley

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. ~ Wendell Phillips

Anyone who writes a law that cannot be easily understood by an average citizen is not worthy of leadership. The Constitution, which was written by extremely learned men, is quite easy to understand and should serve as a gold standard for the language and size of subsequent legislation that is introduced. ~ Ben Carson

It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult. He is contemptible in that his judgments reflect a vision of himself which in his ignorance and pride he would impose upon the world. I implore you, do not become a moralist; you will destroy your art and your mind. ~ John Edward Williams

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. ~ Ben Nicholson

Position may separate the leader from the follower, but a title does not imply superiority. ~ Chris Ewing

Americans in any century can be too inclined to accept consultant-crafted images of flesh-and-blood people. ~ Larry J. Sabato

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride. ~ John Stott

The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile & achieving goals with an extra MILE ~ Sujit Lalwani