Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual Vision, Achievement, World Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Spiritual Vision

• America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Men, America

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Confused, Thoughtful, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Winning, Vision

• We never found a real model (for our vision).

  Woodrow Wilson

  Real, Vision, Found

• No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.87, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Vision, He Man

• Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Soul, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1970). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed”

• At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Evil, Vision, Lasts

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

• My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Law, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.127, tredition

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