Top 100 Leadership Vision Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Leadership vision is built on the leader's authenticity.
Pearl Zhu
#3. The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.
John Haggai
#4. Every barren land is a VISION waiting for a VISIONARY
Fela Durotoye
#5. Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.
Robin S. Sharma
#6. 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
#7. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Roy T. Bennett
#8. Your vision at a leadership level needs to be more global and selfless, it needs to go beyond you. Reflect and project your dream for a perfect world, even if you can only make it a great world.
Archibald Marwizi
#9. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.
Chris Matthews
#10. The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.
Rick Warren
#11. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.
Ban Ki-moon
#12. That's what leadership is all about: getting somebody to see your vision and believe it's possible.
Kip Tindell
#13. The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.
Andrew Zolli
#14. Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.
John C. Maxwell
#15. People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn't wear a title.
Beth Ramsay
#16. Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#17. There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.
Matthew Carter
#18. (Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding.
Hamilton Basso
#19. The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success ... holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time.
Steve Maraboli
#20. Hope without a strategy doesn't generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of the future and a way to get there. People won't follow you if they don't believe you can get to where you say you're going.
Seth
#21. Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.
John C. Maxwell
#22. Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
Stephen Covey
#23. Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.
Robert Johnson
#24. It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
Karen Kain
#25. Many 'experts' don't possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn't be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the 'impossible.
T.K. Naliaka
#26. Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.
Debasish Mridha
#27. A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Creative expansion cannot happen without vision.
Pearl Zhu
#29. Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.
Marcia Whicker
#30. Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
Jack Welch
#31. I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: we can transmit it to others.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#32. As a leader, it's critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.
Bonnie Marcus
#33. The vision is to restore Avon to an iconic beauty brand and to our leadership position in global direct selling, as well as continuing to ensure that we live up to our mission of empowering women.
Sheri McCoy
#34. Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.
George Barna
#35. Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.
Jack Weatherford
#36. Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper.
William Sterrett
#37. 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
#38. The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.
Charles Dickens
#39. Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.
Matthew Carter
#40. Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way
Robin Crow
#41. If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.
Matthew Carter
#42. You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.
Derwin L. Gray
#43. Success comes to people with leadership skills, a sound vision, enthusiasm, and the willingness to put forth the effort to build an organization and find others who will do the same.
Mark Yarnell
#44. Our vision is sharp, our goals are clear, our resources are huge, our will is strong and we stand tall, ready to face the challenges ahead.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#45. "How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".
Andy Stanley
#46. The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.
Matt Mickiewicz
#47. The lack of vision in public life and the emptying out of values that visionless leadership creates lead to a politics of complaint.
Jim Wallis
#48. A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.
Onyi Anyado
#50. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
Paul Gibbons
#51. We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.
Scott Hammerle
#52. The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own.
Ben Morton
#53. Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.
Marshall Goldsmith
#54. Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#55. President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.
Henry Bonilla
#56. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
#57. A truly great and enduring vision will extend beyond the leadership season of any one individual and be carried in the hearts and minds of those to whom it has been entrusted.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#58. People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that's what team chemistry and leadership is all about.
Nick Saban
#59. Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.
Simon Sinek
#60. Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.
George Barna
#61. Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.
Archibald Marwizi
#62. 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
#63. The very essence of leadership is you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato's unexamined life, is not worth living.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
#64. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.
Mary Parker Follett
#65. Influencers are dreamers. They are leaders with a vision.
Johnny Hunt
#66. Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
W. Averell Harriman
#67. If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That's a vision right there!
Janna Cachola
#69. One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
Simon Sinek
#70. Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it.
Joe Nocera
#72. Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
Daisaku Ikeda
#73. You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
#74. Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#75. Work, and not wishing, is what brings motion and results from your vision. Don't be lazy. Try and try again, learn and practice, review and refine, then go back to implement again.
Archibald Marwizi
#76. President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.
Wesley Clark
#77. Vision is a future state of beings.
Pearl Zhu
#78. Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#79. There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#80. Multiple Spiritual Choices towards Light will accumulate your positive karma, upgrade your vision, develop your leadership skills
Jacklyn A. Lo
#81. I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.
Baba Kalyani
#82. I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.
Barack Obama
#83. Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#84. If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way.
David J. Greer
#85. Your purpose will be clear only when you listen to your heart.
Lolly Daskal
#86. Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
Abraham Zaleznik
#87. 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
#88. I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham, the new data on the First Vision, etc ... It would tend to devastate the Church if a top leader were to announce the facts.
Thomas Ferguson
#89. Because "we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue" - imaginative depictions of the truly good life - "we will seek out the imagery of vice.
Russell Kirk
#90. There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#91. Leadership is the lifting of a man's vision to higher sights, the raising of a man's performance to a higher standard, the building of a man's personality beyond its limitations. - PETER DRUCKER
Samuel Chand
#92. Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.
Archibald Marwizi
#93. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.
Sue Tetzlaff
#94. True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.
Leila Janah
#95. To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position.
James Davison Hunter
#96. He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.
Thomas E. Mann
#97. Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison in anticipation that it would help him lead the whole of South Africa.
Robert Lane Greene
#98. Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.
Chuck Knox
#100. Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It doesn't begin and end with the writing of a personal mission statement. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Stephen R. Covey
