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Dream Quotes (quotes about dreams):
Dreams: Reality has to start somewhere!
Jeff Rogers (August 2006)
Dreams: Start your tomorrow today!
Jeff Rogers (2006)
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream
deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty
of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
American Proverb
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality
that is perhaps the future.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
There are powers inside of you, if you could discover
and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could
become.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
James Dean
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams
are dreamed by artists.
L. Ron Hubbard, Science of Survival
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual
world.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things
that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921),
part 1, act 1
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek
and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia
to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a Dream" speech
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling
that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is
to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the
form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe
to lead you.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would
not incite us to have them.
John Updike (1932 - )
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream
of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945)
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia
to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
Powerful dreams need more than just a little weekend gardening!
television commercial
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the
life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe
will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain
it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
Stella Terrill Mann
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they
seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August
1996
I dream, therefore I become.
Cheryl Renée Grossman
Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If
I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the
life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the
most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the
last small twig has grown.
Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm S. Forbes
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just
to realize them.
Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002
The things that one most wants to do are the things that
are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby, O Magazine, September 2002
One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which
escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but
also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those
that don't.
Brett Butler, 'Knee Deep in Paradise'
When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never
let go.
Carol Burnett (1936 - )
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the
challenges make life worth living.
Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
For glory gives herself only to those who have always
dreamed of her.
Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask
them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Mitch All Together
Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents
the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding
and the essence of encouragement.
Colby Dorr Dam
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy, "Ode" (quoted in the film Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Factory)
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to
take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
Walt Disney (1901 - 1966), The Disney Way
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only
the time we are here.
Susan Taylor
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success
- the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.
John Alan Appleman
[Many of the above quotes were found at The Quotations Page]
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