Dreams Quotations

Authors that have more than 2 quotes: Ambrose Bierce, Les Brown, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walt Disney, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Erich Fromm, Kahlil Gibran, John Keats, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther, Jr. King, Orison Swett Marden, John Milton, Anaïs Nin, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pope, Robert H. Schuller, William Shakespeare, Percy bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry David Thoreau, Denis Waitley, Oscar Wilde, Oprah Winfrey, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats

Peter Abrahams (top)
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on there own bootstraps.
	- Peter Abrahams
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
	- Peter Abrahams

Joseph Addison (top)
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
	- Joseph Addison

Aeschylus (top)
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
	- Aeschylus

Amos Bronson Alcott (top)
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
	- Amos Bronson Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (top)
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
	- Louisa May Alcott

Muhammad Ali (top)
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
	- Muhammad Ali

James Allen (top)
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you 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.
	- James Allen
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.
	- James Allen

Woody Allen (top)
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
	- Woody Allen

Marian Anderson (top)
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
	- Marian Anderson

Maya Angelou (top)
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
	- Maya Angelou
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
	- Maya Angelou

Hannah Arendt (top)
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
	- Hannah Arendt

Mary Kay Ash (top)
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
	- Mary Kay Ash

Margaret Atwood (top)
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
	- Margaret Atwood

Unknown Author (top)
When you cease to dream, you cease to live.
	- Unknown Author
Criticize, generalize everyone's strange Yet you choose to refuse to try and change And through your eyes you surmise what isn't there Because your dream isn't what it seems now you don't even care.
	- Unknown Author
Don't let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams.
	- Unknown Author
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die tomorrow.
	- Unknown Author
Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.
	- Unknown Author
Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
	- Unknown Author
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
	- Unknown Author
Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing The dream that you wish will come true.
	- Unknown Author
I'd rather look forward and dream, then look backwards and regret.
	- Unknown Author
Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
	- Unknown Author
Love is what dreams are made of.
	- Unknown Author
No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.
	- Unknown Author
No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.
	- Unknown Author
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
	- Unknown Author
Show me somebody who doesn't have a dream about the future and I'll show you somebody who doesn't know where he is going.
	- Unknown Author
The fulfillment of your dreams lies within you and you alone.
	- Unknown Author
The game is never over, and the prize is never won. Broken doors, broken dreams, it's all the same thing. A door's purpose is to conceal the contents of a room, and dreams are the doors of the mind.
	- Unknown Author
The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.
	- Unknown Author
The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.
	- Unknown Author
The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
	- Unknown Author
Think about your Dream all the time, no matter what else your doing. Live your Dream in your imagination. Become obsessed by it. Love it. Be passionate about it.
	- Unknown Author
To achieve your dreams, believe in yourself. If you don't, who will?
	- Unknown Author
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
	- Unknown Author
To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway.
	- Unknown Author
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
	- Unknown Author
What orbit of the planets has put you and me in this place, at this moment? Where time takes a breath, and we dance on the edge of our dreams?
	- Unknown Author
Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.
	- Unknown Author
You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.
	- Unknown Author
Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities.
	- Unknown Author
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.
	- Unknown Author

Richard Bach (top)
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
	- Richard Bach

Toni Cade Bambara (top)
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.
	- Toni Cade Bambara
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.
	- Toni Cade Bambara

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (top)
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.
	- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Sir James Matthew Barrie (top)
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
	- Sir James Matthew Barrie

John Barrymore (top)
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
	- John Barrymore

Max Beerbohm (top)
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
	- Max Beerbohm

Hector Berlioz (top)
Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.
	- Hector Berlioz

Ambrose Bierce (top)
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one — the knowledge and the dream.
	- Ambrose Bierce
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
	- Ambrose Bierce
REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
	- Ambrose Bierce

William Blake (top)
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
	- William Blake
What is now proved was once imagined.
	- William Blake

Erma Bombeck (top)
Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely.
	- Erma Bombeck
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
	- Erma Bombeck

Charles du Bos (top)
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
	- Charles du Bos

Richard Branson (top)
Sometimes I do wake up in the mornings and feel like I've just had the most incredible dream. I've just dreamt my life
	- Richard Branson

Ashleigh Brilliant (top)
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
	- Ashleigh Brilliant

Henry Bromel (top)
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

Emily Brontë (top)
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
	- Emily Brontë

Joyce Brothers (top)
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
	- Joyce Brothers

Les Brown (top)
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
	- Les Brown
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
	- Les Brown
Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
	- Les Brown
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
	- Les Brown
I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
	- Les Brown
If you are not excited about your own dream, how can you expect anybody else to be?
	- Les Brown
If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.
	- Les Brown
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
	- Les Brown
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
	- Les Brown
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
	- Les Brown
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
	- Les Brown
You have the courage and power to live your dreams.
	- Les Brown

Robert Browning (top)
Life is an empty dream.
	- Robert Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (top)
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
	- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Luis Buñuel (top)
If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'
	- Luis Buñuel

Elihu Burritt (top)
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instructions.
	- Elihu Burritt

William Burroughs (top)
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
	- William Burroughs

Barbara Bush (top)
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
	- Barbara Bush

Brett Butler (top)
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
	- Brett Butler

Lord Byron (top)
Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
	- Lord Byron

Joseph Campbell (top)
The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got an adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.
	- Joseph Campbell

Albert Camus (top)
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
	- Albert Camus

Elias Canetti (top)
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
	- Elias Canetti

George Carlin (top)
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that...
	- George Carlin

Thomas Carlyle (top)
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
	- Thomas Carlyle

Dale Carnegie (top)
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
	- Dale Carnegie
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
	- Dale Carnegie

Cicero (top)
The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
	- Cicero

E.M. Cioran (top)
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
	- E.M. Cioran

Frank A. Clark (top)
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
	- Frank A. Clark

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (top)
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
	- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing - And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
	- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
	- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.
	- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Churton Collins (top)
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
	- John Churton Collins

George William Curtis (top)
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: Dreamer, dream no more!
	- George William Curtis

Bette Davis (top)
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
	- Bette Davis

James Dean (top)
Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today.
	- James Dean

René Descartes (top)
Desire awakens only those things that are thought possible.
	- René Descartes
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
	- René Descartes

Richard M. Devos (top)
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
	- Richard M. Devos

Emily Dickinson (top)
Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
	- Emily Dickinson

Isak Dinesen (top)
The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.
	- Isak Dinesen

Diogenes (top)
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
	- Diogenes
The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
	- Diogenes

Walt Disney (top)
All dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.
	- Walt Disney
I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.
	- Walt Disney
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
	- Walt Disney
Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C's. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence.
	- Walt Disney
You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
	- Walt Disney

Benjamin Disraeli (top)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
	- Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
	- Benjamin Disraeli

John Dryden (top)
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
	- John Dryden

Henry Van Dyke (top)
Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— . . . it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
	- Henry Van Dyke

Bob Dylan (top)
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.
	- Bob Dylan

Umberto Ecco (top)
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
	- Umberto Ecco

Marian Wright Edelman (top)
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
	- Marian Wright Edelman

Albert Einstein (top)
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
	- Albert Einstein

Loren Eiseley (top)
Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.
	- Loren Eiseley

Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.Friendship demands the ability to do without it.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hitch your wagon to a star.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Euripides (top)
The wisest men follow their own direction.
	- Euripides

William Faulkner (top)
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
	- William Faulkner

Malcolm S. Forbes (top)
Living and dreaming are two different things — but you can't do one without the other.
	- Malcolm S. Forbes

Henry Ford (top)
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible
	- Henry Ford

Anatole France (top)
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
	- Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
	- Anatole France

Benjamin Franklin (top)
Some people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.
	- Benjamin Franklin

Sigmund Freud (top)
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
	- Sigmund Freud
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.
	- Sigmund Freud

Erich Fromm (top)
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
	- Erich Fromm
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.
	- Erich Fromm
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
	- Erich Fromm

Carl G. Jung (top)
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
	- Carl G. Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. . . . Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
	- Carl G. Jung

Neil Gaiman (top)
You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly . . . but you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar . . . ask yourselves, all of you . . . what power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?
	- Neil Gaiman

Paul Gauguin (top)
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
	- Paul Gauguin

Kahlil Gibran (top)
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver
	- Kahlil Gibran
They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.
	- Kahlil Gibran
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
	- Kahlil Gibran
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
	- Kahlil Gibran

Gail Godwin (top)
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
	- Gail Godwin

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (top)
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
	- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
	- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vincent van Gogh (top)
I dream my painting and then paint my dream.
	- Vincent van Gogh

Germaine Greer (top)
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
	- Germaine Greer

Moss Hart (top)
The only credential the city [New York] asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
	- Moss Hart

Nathaniel Hawthorne (top)
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death.
	- Nathaniel Hawthorne

H.F. Hedge (top)
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.
	- H.F. Hedge

Heraclitus (top)
Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
	- Heraclitus

Napoleon Hill (top)
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
	- Napoleon Hill
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
	- Napoleon Hill

Eric Hoffer (top)
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations — past and present — are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.
	- Eric Hoffer
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
	- Eric Hoffer

Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes (top)
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes

Homer (top)
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
	- Homer

Elbert Hubbard (top)
A goal without a plan is a dream.
	- Elbert Hubbard

James Langston Hughes (top)
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?
	- James Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.
	- James Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston (top)
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart, live leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet.
	- Zora Neale Hurston

Eugene Ionesco (top)
I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
	- Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
	- Eugene Ionesco

Jesse Jackson (top)
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
	- Jesse Jackson

William James (top)
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
	- William James
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
	- William James

Thomas Jefferson (top)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
	- Thomas Jefferson

Steve Jobs (top)
I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.
	- Steve Jobs

Ben Jonson (top)
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished— To endure, and go calmly on!
	- Ben Jonson

Michael Jordan (top)
Don’t let anyone steal our DREAMS
	- Michael Jordan

John Keats (top)
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
	- John Keats
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect.
	- John Keats
Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.
	- John Keats

Helen Keller (top)
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream.
	- Helen Keller

John F. Kennedy (top)
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
	- John F. Kennedy
The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
	- John F. Kennedy
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
	- John F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy (top)
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?
	- Robert F. Kennedy

Soren Kierkegaard (top)
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
	- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
	- Soren Kierkegaard

Billie Jean King (top)
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
	- Billie Jean King

Martin Luther, Jr. King (top)
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, Jr. King
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.
	- Martin Luther, Jr. King
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
	- Martin Luther, Jr. King
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
	- Martin Luther, Jr. King
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
	- Martin Luther, Jr. King

Charles Kingsley (top)
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
	- Charles Kingsley

Rudyard Kipling (top)
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er— but she ain't!
	- Rudyard Kipling

Charles Lamb (top)
But there 's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
	- Charles Lamb
Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?
	- Charles Lamb

D.H. Lawrence (top)
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
	- D.H. Lawrence

Stephen Butler Leacock (top)
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
	- Stephen Butler Leacock

Abraham Lincoln (top)
The President tonight has a dream: — He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: — He is a very common-looking man. The President replied: — The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
	- Abraham Lincoln

George Linley (top)
Ever of thee I 'm fondly dreaming, Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.
	- George Linley
Thou are gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
	- George Linley

Niccolo Machiavelli (top)
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
	- Niccolo Machiavelli

Archibald MacLeish (top)
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.
	- Archibald MacLeish

William Ngwako Maphoto (top)
Darkness, is your temporal circumstance, therefore it can't shut-off your hope in the versioned brightness.
	- William Ngwako Maphoto
Each sunrise gives hope to your dreams and light to your plans.
	- William Ngwako Maphoto

Orison Swett Marden (top)
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
	- Orison Swett Marden
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success, may be crowded with grand possibilities.
	- Orison Swett Marden
We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
	- Orison Swett Marden

Edwin Markham (top)
Ah, great it is to believe the dream As we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life's battles through, And say at the end, The dream is true!
	- Edwin Markham

Karl Marx (top)
The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.
	- Karl Marx

Herman Melville (top)
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
	- Herman Melville
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.
	- Herman Melville

James Albert Michener (top)
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
	- James Albert Michener

Bette Midler (top)
It's the heart afraid of dying, that never learns to dance; It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance; It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give; And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live.
	- Bette Midler

Randy K. Milholland (top)
It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
	- Randy K. Milholland

John Milton (top)
By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
	- John Milton
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
	- John Milton
Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
	- John Milton

Mohammed (top)
Now Allah has created the dream not only as a means of guidance and instruction, I refer to the dream, but he has made it a window on the Unseen.
	- Mohammed

Michel de Montaigne (top)
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
	- Michel de Montaigne

Thomas Moore (top)
And music, too—dear music! that can touch Beyond all else the soul that loves it much — Now heard far off, so far as but to seem Like the faint, exquisite music of a dream.
	- Thomas Moore

Toni Morrison (top)
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
	- Toni Morrison

Iris Murdoch (top)
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
	- Iris Murdoch

Edward Roscoe Murrow (top)
Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.
	- Edward Roscoe Murrow

Vladimir Nabokov (top)
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
	- Vladimir Nabokov

John Henry Cardinal Newman (top)
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion; I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
	- John Henry Cardinal Newman

Earl Nightingale (top)
You become what you think about.
	- Earl Nightingale

Anaïs Nin (top)
Dreams are necessary to life.
	- Anaïs Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
	- Anaïs Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
	- Anaïs Nin
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.
	- Anaïs Nin

Marsha Norman (top)
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
	- Marsha Norman

Austin O'Malley (top)
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
	- Austin O'Malley

Cynthia Ozick (top)
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
	- Cynthia Ozick
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
	- Cynthia Ozick

Paracelsus (top)
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
	- Paracelsus

Wendell Phillips (top)
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
	- Wendell Phillips

Plato (top)
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder.
	- Plato

Edgar Allan Poe (top)
All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
	- Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
	- Edgar Allan Poe
Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
	- Edgar Allan Poe
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.
	- Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
	- Edgar Allan Poe

Alexander Pope (top)
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
	- Alexander Pope
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream;
	- Alexander Pope
You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
	- Alexander Pope

Karl Popper (top)
Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.
	- Karl Popper

J.M. Power (top)
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
	- J.M. Power

Marcel Proust (top)
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
	- Marcel Proust

Chinese Proverb (top)
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
	- Chinese Proverb
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep
	- Chinese Proverb

Ayn Rand (top)
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
	- Ayn Rand

Eleanor Roosevelt (top)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
	- Eleanor Roosevelt

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (top)
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
	- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
	- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Carl Sandburg (top)
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
	- Carl Sandburg

George Santayana (top)
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
	- George Santayana

Johann Christoph friedrich von Schiller (top)
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
	- Johann Christoph friedrich von Schiller

Robert H. Schuller (top)
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
	- Robert H. Schuller
I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!
	- Robert H. Schuller
It is unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.
	- Robert H. Schuller
Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.
	- Robert H. Schuller

Charles Schwab (top)
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
	- Charles Schwab

Sir Walter Scott (top)
Soldier rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep thast knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking.
	- Sir Walter Scott
To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!
	- Sir Walter Scott

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (top)
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
	- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anne Sexton (top)
In a dream you are never eighty.
	- Anne Sexton

William Shakespeare (top)
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
	- William Shakespeare
I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
	- William Shakespeare
O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
	- William Shakespeare
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
	- William Shakespeare
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.
	- William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
	- William Shakespeare

George Bernard Shaw (top)
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
	- George Bernard Shaw

Percy bysshe Shelley (top)
A dream has power to poison sleep.
	- Percy bysshe Shelley
And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
	- Percy bysshe Shelley
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep! He hath awaken from the dream of life!
	- Percy bysshe Shelley

Dame Edith Sitwell (top)
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
	- Dame Edith Sitwell

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (top)
Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake.. On then with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back NEVER LOOK BACK. . . .
	- Stephen Joshua Sondheim
I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
	- Stephen Joshua Sondheim

John Sterling (top)
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
	- John Sterling

Robert Louis Stevenson (top)
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
	- Robert Louis Stevenson

Algernon Swinburne (top)
Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.
	- Algernon Swinburne
Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.
	- Algernon Swinburne

Alfred Lord Tennyson (top)
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
	- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.
	- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Maybe the wildest dreams are but the needful preludes of the truth.
	- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Henry David Thoreau (top)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
	- Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
	- Henry David Thoreau
Friends . . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams.
	- Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
	- Henry David Thoreau
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
	- Henry David Thoreau
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
	- Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
	- Henry David Thoreau
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.
	- Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
	- Henry David Thoreau
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
	- Henry David Thoreau

Leo Tolstoy (top)
We should show life neither as it is or as it it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
	- Leo Tolstoy

Brian Tracy (top)
All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
	- Brian Tracy

Donald Trump (top)
If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
	- Donald Trump

Harriet Tubman (top)
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. . . .
	- Harriet Tubman

Mark Twain (top)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
	- Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
	- Mark Twain

John Updike (top)
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
	- John Updike

Abram L. Urban (top)
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
	- Abram L. Urban

Leonardo da Vinci (top)
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
	- Leonardo da Vinci

Denis Waitley (top)
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.
	- Denis Waitley
Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it and see it from a mile away.
	- Denis Waitley
We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
	- Denis Waitley
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
	- Denis Waitley

Sam Walton (top)
The big lesson that we learned was that there was much, much more out there than we ever dreamed of.
	- Sam Walton

William Arthur Ward (top)
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
	- William Arthur Ward

Bill Watterson (top)
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.
	- Bill Watterson

J.C. Watts (top)
The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
	- J.C. Watts

Evelyn Waugh (top)
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
	- Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Weigall (top)
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world forever, it seems.
	- Arthur Weigall

E.B. White (top)
The future . . . seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
	- E.B. White

Oscar Wilde (top)
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
	- Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
	- Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
	- Oscar Wilde

Woodrow Wilson (top)
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
	- Woodrow Wilson

Oprah Winfrey (top)
I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer and Madame C.J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
	- Oprah Winfrey
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
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
	- Oprah Winfrey

Virginia Woolf (top)
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
	- Virginia Woolf

William Wordsworth (top)
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
	- William Wordsworth
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.
	- William Wordsworth
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
	- William Wordsworth
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
	- William Wordsworth

Steven Wright (top)
Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world.
	- Steven Wright

William Butler Yeats (top)
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
	- William Butler Yeats
Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
	- William Butler Yeats
Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
	- William Butler Yeats
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
	- William Butler Yeats
In dreams begin responsibility.
	- William Butler Yeats
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind delight.
	- William Butler Yeats
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
	- William Butler Yeats
What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
	- William Butler Yeats

Lin Yutang (top)
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.
	- Lin Yutang

Dan Zadra (top)
Your hopes, dreams & aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms — if you will only let them.
	- Dan Zadra