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Vision Quotes by John C. Maxwell
- Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.
- 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…
- Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
- Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
- Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped…
- A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
- Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their…
- 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…
- Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with…
- Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.
- You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others.
- People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They…
- If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream.
- Followers are always watching what you do. And people do what people see! If you are a leader seeking to make your vision come alive,…
- Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.
- If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine…
- Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line…
- In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me.…
- A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
More Vision Quotes
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C.S. Lewis
- So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale
- Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see… — Louisa May Alcott
- There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold. — Oprah Winfrey
- There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If… — Mark Twain
- From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good.… — Barbara Olson