Dreams Quotes

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
– Michel de Montaigne
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
– Edward Moore
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.
– Billy Barty
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
– Vladimir Nabokov
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.
– Gerard De Nerval
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
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
– Anais Nin
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
– Novalis
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
– Marsha Norman
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
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
– Carl Perkins
Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
– Ross Perot
Never let your dreams go away.
– Mike Piazza
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
– Pindar
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
– Luigi Pirandello
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
– Matthew Prior
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, but where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
– Adelaide Anne Procter
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
– Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
– Jane Roberts
Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
– Jane Roberts
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
– Jean Rostand
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
– Tecumseh
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
– Susan L. Taylor
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
– Paul Valery
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
– Raoul Vaneigem
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
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
– Mary Webb
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
– Simone Weil
Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
– Elijah Wood
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
In dreams begins responsibility.
– William Butler Yeats
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
– William Butler Yeats
In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
– Loretta Young
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
– Carl Gustav Jung
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
– Tupac Shakur
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
– Aeschylus
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
– Paul Gauguin
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
– George Bernard Shaw
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
– Donald G. Mitchell
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
– Gary Ryan Blair
You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.
– Ian Rush
You've got to have dreams to keep you going.
– Steve Waugh
You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.
– Jay Weatherill
You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?
– Lucy Hale
You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.
– Suze Orman
You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.
– Ginnifer Goodwin
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
– Natalie du Toit
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
– Abdul Kalam
You have to dream dreams to live dreams.
– Eric Lindros
You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.
– Nick Cannon
You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.
– Channing Tatum
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
– Steven Spielberg
You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.
– Troy Dumais
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
– Octavia Spencer
You can't censor people's dreams.
– Robyn Hitchcock
You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.
– James Blunt
You can plant a dream.
– Anne Campbell
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
– Jerry B. Jenkins
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
– Jean Genet
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
– Rudolph Valentino
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
– Gloria Steinem
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
– Sugar Ray Leonard
With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.
– Marco Rubio
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
– Joe Montana
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
– Lorenz Hart
Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.
– Robert Griffin III
When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
– Janet McTeer
When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
– AnnaSophia Robb
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
– Marian Anderson
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
– Desmond Tutu
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
– Karen Armstrong
When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
– Roger Federer
When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.
– Alan Jackson
When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.
– Chris O'Dowd
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
– Masaharu Morimoto
When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'
– Diana Nyad
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
– Jane Goodall
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
– Chris Kyle
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
– Azar Nafisi
When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.
– Laurieann Gibson
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
– Stephen Spender
Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.
– Annette Funicello
What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.
– Alice Englert
What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
– Marco Rubio
What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.
– Henning Mankell
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
– Manuel Puig
What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.
– Mia Love
Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
– Colin Hay
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
– Jesse Jackson
We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.
– Marco Rubio
We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
– Puff Daddy
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
– Doris Lessing
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
– Lenny Wilkens
We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
– Vicente Fox
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
– Max Beerbohm
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
– Thomas S. Monson
We live because of the dreams.
– Marat Safin
We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.
– Robin Hayes