Dream Quotations

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

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

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

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

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

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

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

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.

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.

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

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

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

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.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

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

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.

Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a 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.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

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.

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

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

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

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice-and from that all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. We've become more materialistic. For balance, I think we need to get back to idealism and patriotism, but also be realistic with our monetary goals.

My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.

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.

Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

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

Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

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

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

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.

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.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

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.

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?

The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.

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

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.