Top 100 No Vision Quotes
#1. It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
Helen Keller
#2. They were simply looking at the sky. In their eyes there was no vision: only the reflection of the blue and the absolute skies of early autumn. Those blue skies though, were unusual skies that I might never see again in my life.
Yukio Mishima
#3. General Electric CEO Jack Welch said in Winning: No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
Eric Schmidt
#4. I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."
Daniel Handler
#5. The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
Helen Keller
#6. We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#7. The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.
Hugh Kingsmill
#8. Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.
Frances G. Wickes
#9. The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
Woodrow Wilson
#10. We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won't all come true; we won't always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.
Tommy Douglas
#12. If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed
Sunday Adelaja
#13. There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.
Jessi Colter
#14. Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.
Robert Brustein
#15. If there's no vision, there's no hope.
It there's no hope, there is nothing.
If there is a vision, there is hope.
If there's hope, there's something.
Look unto God for these things...
Jerrel C. Thomas
#16. What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.
Helen Keller
#18. To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.
Laurie Beth Jones
#19. I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.
Muhammad Yunus
#20. The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
B.C. Forbes
#21. What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
Helen Keller
#22. Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
Junior Seau
#23. Dickens had, with all his genius, the narrow short sight of his day and class, sentimental tears for poverty but no vision to remove it except by inviting everybody to be as noble a fellow as himself. War
Stephen Leacock
#24. Life without meaning
cannot be borne.
We find a mission
to which we're sworn
or answer the call
of Death's dark horn.
Without a gleaning
of purpose in life,
we have no vision,
we live in strife,
or let blood fall
on a suicide knife.
Dean Koontz
#25. The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
Frances O'Grady
#26. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
#27. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple, and it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.
Barack Obama
#28. It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller
#29. Goals and dreams are not purposed to please others. I'd rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.
Janna Cachola
#30. Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said, where there is no vision the people perish. But it is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism.
G.K. Chesterton
#31. No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service.
John P. Kotter
#32. The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
#33. My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
Oprah Winfrey
#34. come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish - no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears. Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fullness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe. Deity
Rabindranath Tagore
#36. The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future
Ayi Kwei Armah
#37. The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
#39. He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
Thomas Carlyle
#40. No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein
Isaac Asimov
#41. The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down ... The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.
Michael O'Leary
#42. Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.
Glenn Beck
#43. It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.
John O'Callaghan
#44. I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to be. Their subject matter is concrete, and they can be related to specific systems in body and brain, no less so than vision or speech.
Antonio R. Damasio
#45. There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.
Paula Fox
#46. One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me.
Mandisa
#47. Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.
Andrea Jung
#48. 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
#49. The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
Brian Eno
#50. I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.
Rick Santorum
#51. No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Woodrow Wilson
#52. What happened to society? I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision.
Craig T. Nelson
#54. True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.
Helen Rowland
#55. When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.
John Logan
#56. When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
Oswald Chambers
#57. We need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.
Sue Monk Kidd
#58. With no clear vision there can be no clear future.
Gavin Mills
#59. It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.
Steven Furtick
#60. He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who he really is, but he will recover, for he used to know me, and all I have to do is cloud the mist that beclouds his vision.
Boethius
#61. Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.
Andy Stanley
#62. Instead of wondering at this result of misery in Mr. Casaubon, I think it quite ordinary. Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. And
George Eliot
#63. They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea.
Joe Grant
#64. If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. It is in the vision of the physical eyes
That no invisible or secret thing exists.
But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God
What thing could remain hidden under such Light?
Meghan Nuttall Sayres
#67. The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.
Melissa Etheridge
#68. There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.
Alexander Pope
#69. Because I need it to be mine alone while I carve it. I need solitude with it as I shape it. When I'm finished, then the world can have it, but when I work on it, it is to be my vision and mine alone. I wish no one to see it before it is finished.
Terry Goodkind
#70. GON. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
ANT. The ground indeed is tawny.
SEB. With an eye of green in 't.
ANT. He misses not much.
SEB. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.
William Shakespeare
#71. The practice of shared vision involves the skills of unearthing shared "pictures of the future" that foster genuine commitment and enrollment rather than compliance. In mastering this discipline, leaders learn the counterproductiveness of trying to dictate a vision, no matter how heartfelt.
Peter M. Senge
#72. When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.
Chogyam Trungpa
#73. The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values ... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
John Ralston Saul
#74. 9And the Lord said to Paul l one night in m a vision, n Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10 n for I am with you, and o no one will attack you to harm you, for p I have many in this city who are my people.
Anonymous
#75. He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#77. What is Reality, in the last resort," he asked, "but the thing a man's vision brings to him--to believe? There's no other criterion. The criticism of opposite types of mind is merely a confession of their own limitations." Being
Algernon Blackwood
#78. I have no patience for revelations, for new beginnings, for events that take place beyond the realm of my immediate vision.
Bret Easton Ellis
#79. What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.
Sylvia Plath
#80. All that I possess and use Is like the fleeting vision of a dream. It fades into the realms of memory, And fading, will be seen no more.
Santideva
#81. "When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.
Joan D. Chittister
#82. The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
Os Guinness
#83. Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.
Oskar Kokoschka
#84. Your help comes from the Lord God who made heaven, earth and you! Grab your mission; that's your father's assignment for you! No one can stop you from attaining success with the assignment your father gave you to do!
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.
Piet Zwart
#86. We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery ... it asks that we participate rather than plan.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#87. I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.
Jose Limon
#88. Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Roland Barthes
#89. No nation was better at creating metaphors for itself than America; in this case, the vision of a beautiful, sane, safe, marble future that is all dream and no marble to sustain it.
Dan Simmons
#90. The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.
Ismail Haniyeh
#91. I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#92. Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty.
Yes. No. I don't know. I ... Yes. No.
Mercedes Lackey
#93. In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
Plotinus
#94. There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).
Dada Bhagwan
#95. You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.
Richard Trumka
#96. The course of a man's destiny can seem sharply altered by a sudden illumination. But illumination is no more than the Spirit's sudden vision of a road that is long prepared. Gradually I learned grammar. I practiced syntax. My feelings were awakened. Then a poem suddenly blazed in my heart.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#97. I've lived in many things - boats, caravans, and buses. I've been homeless, I've had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.
Neon Hitch
#98. There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.
Charlotte Bronte
#99. No one else will ever see your dream until YOU envision it. See it and they'll see it too.
Toni Sorenson
#100. In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.
Edgar Allan Poe
