Dreams Quotes Quotes

"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."

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe."

"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."

"Do all you can to make your dreams come true."

"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."

"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions."

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

"Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes."

"Dreams are necessary to life."

"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."

"Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be."

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds."

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you."

"Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended."

"Dream in a pragmatic way."

"We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."

"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

"In dreams begins responsibility."

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests."

"I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to."

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."

"Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers."

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night."

"When you cease to dream you cease to live."

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."

"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."

"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

"All men of action are dreamers."

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."

"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."

"Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep."

"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."

"I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet."

"I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory."

"Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear."

"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."

"I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true."

"Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today."

"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."

"Dreaming men are haunted men."

"My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."

"Man is a genius when he is dreaming."

"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."

"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."

"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

"I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange."

"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."

"This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed."

"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."

"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."

"We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true."

"You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams."

"Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream."

"I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better."

"The interpretation of dreams is a great art."

"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food."

"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."

"Writers write. Dreamers talk about it."

"Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer."

"Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils."

"Strivers achieve what dreamers believe."

"We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams."

"Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors."

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"

"Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes."

"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams."

"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."

"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."

"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."

"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."

"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."

"Keep true to the dreams of your youth."

"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking."

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"

"Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?"

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

"Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true."

"Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world."

"Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them."

"I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true."

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

"Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you."

"If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you."

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

"Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world."

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."

"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us."

"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."

"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."

"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."

"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."

"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

"If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams."

"Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up."

"Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen."

"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."

"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."

"You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility."

"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

"What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."

"You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know."

"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams."

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time."

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."

"There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance."

"Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind."

"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."

"It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams."

"Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things."

"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."

"I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else."

"The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities."

"Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality."

"When the legends die, the dreams end there is no more greatness."

"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."

"Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life."

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."

"My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise."

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

"But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?"

"There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith."

"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head."

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die."

"I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams."

"There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect."

"For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."

"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence."

"Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too."

"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."

"Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow."

"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."

"Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals."

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."

"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams."

"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."

"Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?"

"Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration."

"I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity."

"All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams."

"Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up."

"My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you."

"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."

"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

"Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society."

"I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say."

"I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second."

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams."

"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."

"You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams."

"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic."

"Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily."

"When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish."

"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."

"Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives."

"It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams."

"Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul."

"Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals."

"To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true."

"Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it."

"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."

"There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility."

"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"

"Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover."

"To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms."

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."

"A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though."

"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."

"A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket."

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."

"We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams."

"But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me."

"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable."

"The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny."

"I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself."

"For even in dreams a good deed is not lost."

"Whatever dreams I have wished have come true."

"No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions."

"I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually."

"Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live."

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

"I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams."

"Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else."

"A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others."

"In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out."

"She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you."

"Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true."

"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."

"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself."

"Learn from your dreams what you lack."

"I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head."