aspirational vision Quotes

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk.

Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream, but then open your eyes and see

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!

Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

My future is bright and beautiful.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.