Visionaries Quotes

Vision without execution is delusion.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed.

The upholders of Capitalism are dreamers and visionaries who, instead of doing good with evil intentions do evil with the best intentions.

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

… all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.