George H. W. Bush Quotes

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

Focus your vision by giving it a goal.

When you talk about being exceptional, you do two things: You clearly answer the question 'Who are you?' which is your purpose. And you answer the second question, 'Where are you going?' which is your aspiration and how you're going to get there.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.