I found these visionary quotations which I think you folks might enjoy. So here it is:
Visionary quotations
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Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps. We must step up the stairs.
Vaclav Havel
Some men see things as they are and ask 'why' ? Others dream of things that never were and ask 'why not' ?
George Bernard Shaw
Common folk, not statesmen, nor generals nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and women, can do something to build a better, peaceful world. The future hope of peace lies with such personal …. service.
Henry Cadbury accepting Nobel Peace Prize
Be the change you want to see in the world
Gandhi
Vision without action is merely a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barker
An avalanche begins with a snowflake
Joseph D Compton
Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous army of the world's ills - against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single person.
R.F. Kennedy
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
Albert Einstein
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, and magic and power in it.
Begin it now.
Goethe
Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.
Rufus Jones
There must be amidst all the confusions of the hour a tried and undisturbed remnant of people who will not become purveyors of coercion and violence who are willing to stand alone if it is necessary for the way of peace and love among men
Rufus Jones
They say my work is just a drop in the ocean. I say the ocean is made up of drops.
Mother Theresa
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible
Swift
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give
Winston Churchill
"The only darkness is ignorance"
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
Once for all, you must not worry about your success or failure. It does not concern you. Your duty is to work each day, quietly, to accept the failures which are inevitable and to leave to others the care of measuring the applause.
Ralph W. Emerson
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done
Then they begin to hope it can be done
Then they see it can be done
Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago
Frances Hodgson Burnett
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are ?
Satchel Paige
….so in the light walking and abiding…..
early Quakers
……taking up the burden of the world's suffering…….
George Fox
First man: sometimes I'd like to ask God why he allows poverty, famine and injustice to continue when he could do something about it'.
Second man: what's stopping you ?
First man: I'm afraid he might ask me the same question
Anon
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die - for the harder I work, the more I live.
George Bernard Shaw
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Japanese proverb
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work; but, rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To the person who does not know where he wants to go, there is no favourable wind
Seneca
The dreamers are the saviours of the world
James Allen
There is no greater power than an idea whose time has come.
attributed to Romain Rolland
Not for glory or for fame, but for usefulness, widespread usefulness.
attributed to J. Hudson Taylor
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes but we have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers
Martin Luther King
The future is not the result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created – created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.
John Scharr, University of California at Santa Cruz
Outstanding people have one thing in common; an absolute sense of mission
Zig Ziglar
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that our aim is too low and we reach it
Anon
So long as space remains,
So long as sentient beings remain,
I will remain,
In order to help, in order to serve,
In order to make my contribution.
From 'The Open Heart' by the Dalai Lama
People don't resist change. They resist being changed.
Peter Senge
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen
There are three kinds of people; one who watches things happen, one who makes things happen and one who says 'what happened ?'
Anon
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become
James Allen
The world is for those who make their dreams come true
Harold Gray
Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
Looking up gives light, but at first it makes you dizzy.
Rumi
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
Edmund Spenser
Every action impacts another living being, so make your actions positive. After all, one's eternity remains only in the minds of the living.
Peter Lambert
The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and shelter in its branches.
Matthew, ch. 13, v. 31-32
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29.18
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
Utopia is on the horizon: I walk two steps, it takes two steps back. I walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away. What is utopia for? It is for this, for walking.
Eduardo Galeano
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
Ursula K. Le Guin
With every book I write, I become more and more convinced of the centrality of compassion. I have found that it is the key to most of our religious and social perplexities, and that is what I want my readers to understand. I have always been inspired by the story of Rabbi Hillel, the older contemporary of Jesus. He was approached by a group of pagans who promised to convert to Judaism if the Rabbi could recite the whole of Jewish teaching while he stood on one leg. Hillel stood on one leg and replied:'That which is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour. That is the Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn it." It is an extraordinary remark. There is no mention of God, the Ten Commandments, the Promised Land or the Chosen People - items of faith that we might consider central to the traditions of Israel. All is commentary. The essential is compassion: to look into the interior self, find out what gives you distress and refuse to inflict this upon other people. If we did this, hour by hour, minute by minute, we would have no time to worry about the existence of a metaphysical god. We would constantly be living beyond the prism of our own egotism. This would bring us transformation and vision. As the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel explained: "When we put ourselves at the opposite pole of ego, we would be in the place where God is." All the great world leaders have taught the Golden Rule. Confucius proclaimed it five hundred years before Hillel: "Do not do to others as you would not have done unto you." The Buddha taught it, Jesus taught it, and this is the bedrock message of the Koran. If our politicians and religious leaders made the Golden Rule their first priority, the world would be a happier, safer place. .
Karen Armstrong
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, a gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others, in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implication of history. As a result, there shines forth fleetingly the ever-threatened truth that each and every man, on the foundation of his own sufferings and joys, builds for all.
Albert Camus
Each time a man stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Kennedy
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully
Thomas Carlyle
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Anon
We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
Langston Hughes
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John Rockefeller
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osler
Worry kills more people than work – because more people tackle it.
Elbert Hubbard
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles Kettering
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Henry Ford
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are ?
Satchel Paige
A man will sit for a very long time with his mouth open if waiting for a roast duck to fly in
Anon
If there is a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas A Edison
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction that day is a loss.
Dwight Eisenhower
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
It is wisdom to know others, it is enlightenment to know one’s self.
Tao Te Ching
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers
Jean Piaget
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing
Albert Schweitzer
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton
If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through to its counterside.
Saul Alinsky
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Peter Marshall
Risk more than others think is safe,
Care more than others think is wise,
Dream more than others think is practical,
Expect more than others think is possible.
Anon
One thing the world needs now is people who can tolerate ambiguity, people who are challenged, not threatened by the state of the world. I want to suggest a few things such maturity might require.
First, do not seek security in things, nor yet in status. The care of possessions, and position, is time- consuming and energy-consuming, and they can be taken from you by a thief in the night, by a fire in the night, by a change in political fortunes, by any numbers of disasters. Whatever security you have lies in yourself. Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
If you understand yourself, both your strengths and limitations, If you like the person you are, if you acquire coping skills through experience, if you are not too encumbered, and if you know- inwardly- that disaster cannot ultimately overcome you, then you have gone a long way to maturity. You will be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Second, don't rest in intellectual security, for your philosophy and the knowledge on which it rests are likely to become obsolete. Wisdom is not amassing facts....
Third, the only real security in the end is the love we have given and the love we have received. All else can be taken from us. So pour out your love and friendship and do not hoard it ... And don't delay or hesitate in standing up to be counted with the oppressed.
Finally, cultivate the light touch. Develop a sense of humour. Learn to light up a room with joy when you enter. Accept the challenge of our chaotic and dangerous world with a sense of adventure, of gratitude that our time is now."
Elizabeth Watso
Carol & Mandel Rheems
5 Saikat
Originally uploaded by Carol & Mandel Rheems So many have come to meetings and received literature of our Mission Purpose - but Saikat is the first to really take to his whole heart mind & spirit the work we are about for a community to help bring more PEACE, LOVE, FORGIVENESS, COMPASSION, & HEALING TO THE WORLD, - recognising the Sacredness of ALL LIFE & SPECIES ON OUR PLANET, THE MOTHER EARTH!
YOU ARE SUCH A BLESSING TO US & THIS VISION THAT WE SHARE!
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Posted By Carol & Mandel Rheems to "ONE EARTH VISION AND MISSION" on 3/09/2008 07:57:00 PM
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