Dreams Quotes

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

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

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

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

America is too great for small dreams.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

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.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

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.

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

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

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

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.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

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

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

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

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

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.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

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

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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.

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

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

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

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

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

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Whether you approach your dreams on soft feet or in a breathless run, just so long as you acknowledge that your dreams are valuable and worthy of pursuing, then you’ve made it.

the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

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

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

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

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

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.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

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

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

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

We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

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.

Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

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

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

I have seen the future, and it works.

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.

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

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

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in 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.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

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

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

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

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

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

In dreams begin responsibilities.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't

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

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

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.

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

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

To all the dreamers out there, don't give up on your dreams.

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

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

You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.

Dream the impossible dream.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant?

Dreams are necessary to life.

Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams.

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

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

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.

Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

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

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

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

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

The dream of a cat is filled with mice

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

In a dream you are never eighty.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.