Visionary Goals Quotes & Sayings

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart. — Michel De Montaigne

Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest, how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes, your vision can't be put into action, until you gather the learning experiences, along your journey first. — Shannon L. Alder

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. — Anne Frank

There's no point in being committed to a vision if you're not equally committed to making it a reality. — Tim Fargo

You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger. — Wang Shi

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

... forgotten friend Mushkin ... we read. Time had erased the never, and corrected the falsehood of man. — Anton Chekhov

[In my dream] they slide their lips over my skin, whispering whispering whispering. They tell me their names, they tell me their lives, they tell me their pain ... I can't struggle, I can't stop laughing, I can't resist these people who once were. — Carrie Ryan

The only people who attain power are those who crave it. — Erich Kastner

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child. — Shirley Williams

You need to be curious one way or another as a designer. Your eye has to stay curious. I look at people and think about how they live. I think about bodies. — Michael Kors

I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me. — Emily Browning

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. — Linus Torvalds

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim. — Thomas Jefferson

Harper Lee was legendarily private. I've never known such a private woman in my life. It's no surprise that she left Monroeville, a gossipy little southern town where everybody wants to know everybody's business, and went to the most anonymous city in America. — Wayne Flynt

Selfish Dreamscapes
If you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them ... gossiping about everybody else's dream but their own. — T.F. Hodge

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America. — Penelope Wilton