Visionary Leaders Quotes by Seneca the Younger, Colin Powell, George Lucas, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Robert Fritz and many others.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
…perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
It’s not what the vision is, it’s what the vision does.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind.
But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in – real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it’s going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
