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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.
- People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
- A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
- Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts…
- Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the…
More Vision Quotes
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale
- Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear;… — Bruce Barton
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie