The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
- Colin Powell
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
- Charles Lindbergh
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
- Jesse Owens
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
- Khalil Gibran
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
- Tupac Shakur
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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.
- Mike Tyson
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
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
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
- T. E. Lawrence
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.
- Oscar Wilde
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
- Yoko Ono
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- Paul Valery
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
- Mitch Hedberg
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
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
- Edgar Allan Poe
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
- Zhuangzi
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
- John Barrymore
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
- Eugene Ionesco
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
- Edgar Cayce
Sleep is the best meditation.
- Dalai Lama
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
- Terry Pratchett
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
- Janet Jackson
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
- Joel Osteen
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
- Gloria Steinem
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
- M. C. Escher
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
- Baltasar Gracian
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- Ernest Hemingway
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
- Walter Scott
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
- Michael Korda
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
- Roy Orbison
Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
- Usher
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- Sigmund Freud
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
- Mary Shelley
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw
When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that.
- Harvey Mackay
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
- John Locke
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
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
- Oscar Hammerstein II
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
- Jack Kerouac
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
- Douglas Adams
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
- D. H. Lawrence
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.
- Stefano Gabbana
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
- Erma Bombeck
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
- Joy Page
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
- Akira Kurosawa
I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
- Eva Green
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
- Madonna Ciccone
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
- Aeschylus
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
- Jane Roberts
Dream in a pragmatic way.
- Aldous Huxley
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
- Billy Wilder
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
- Michel de Montaigne
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- Joseph Conrad
When we can't dream any longer we die.
- Emma Goldman
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.
- Jesse Jackson
Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
- Jim Valvano
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
- Paul Wellstone
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
- Michael Bloomberg
A daydream is an evasion.
- Thomas Merton
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
- Rene Descartes
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
- Herb Brooks
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
- Valentina Tereshkova
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
- Malcolm Forbes
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
- Mary Webb
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
- George Santayana
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
- Paracelsus
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.
- Florence King
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
- Elias Canetti
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
- Lenny Wilkens
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
- Andre Breton
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
- E. V. Lucas
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
- Victor Hugo
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
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
- Joseph Barbera
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
- Herbert Kaufman
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
- Les Brown
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
- Joan Didion
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
- Jerry B. Jenkins
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
- Olive Schreiner
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
- Amy Lowell
Night is the mother of counsels.
- George Herbert
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
- Luigi Pirandello