Quotes about: dreams


Learn from your dreams what you lack.
– W. H. Auden

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
– Les Brown

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
– J. M. Power

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.
– Thomas Dolby

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
– Diana Scharf Hunt

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
– Benjamin Franklin

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
– Eugene Ionesco
My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
– Christina Aguilera
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
– Amos Bronson Alcott
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall 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
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.
– Greg Anderson
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
– Louis Aragon
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
– Hannah Arendt
At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.
– Dido Armstrong
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
I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.
– Elena Anaya
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
– Gaston Bachelard
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
– David Bailey
It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
– J. G. Ballard
What is life? A madness. 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
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
– Djuna Barnes
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
– James M. Barrie
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
– John Barrymore
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
– Georges Bataille
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
– John Berger
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
– Tim Berners-Lee
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
– Erma Bombeck
Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, How good or how bad am I? That's where courage comes in.
– Erma Bombeck
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there.
– Erma Bombeck
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
– Ray Bradbury
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
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
– Emily Bronte
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
– Emily Bronte
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
– David Brooks
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
– Les Brown
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
– Les Brown
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
– William C. Bryant
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
– Leo Burnett
A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.
– Carl Burns
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
– Brett Butler
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
– Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
– Vic Braden
Unpinned even by rudimentary notions of time and space, dreams float or flash by, leaving in their wake trails of unease, hopes, fears and anxieties.
– Stephen Brook
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: We are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams. We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams. I'm a dreamer.
– Herb Brooks
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
– Mark Burnett
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
– Joseph Campbell
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
– Elias Canetti
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
– Jimmy Carter
If this one takes off, it could make me rich beyond my wildest dreams. And believe me, my dreams are pretty wild!
– Graham Chapman
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
– Leonard Cohen
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
– Leonard Cohen
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
– Norman Cousins
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
– Steven Callahan
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
– Edgar Cayce
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
– Chin-Ning Chu
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
– Madonna Ciccone
At our best, we are in constant search of something beyond, of national dreams and destinies that we reach toward, together.
– Adrienne Clarkson
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
– Robert Conklin
O Genevieve, sweet Genevieve, The days may come, the days may go, But still the hands of mem'ry weave The blissful dreams of long ago.
– George Cooper
War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
– John Cory
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
– Salvador Dali
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To have hopes, dreams-great.
– Johnny Depp
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
– Rene Descartes
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
– Princess Diana
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
– Bruce Dickinson
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
– Walt Disney
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
– Walt Disney
I come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrificed at the altar of getting some kind of menial job.
– Bill Dixon
Our success or failure won't be measured in charts or graphs or budget tables, but in the fulfillment of their dreams [people of Wisconsin].
– Jim Doyle
When you can help people achieve their financial dreams, their societal dreams, when you can show them how they can own a home, when you can truly do great things - that's, to me, what politics is all about. Unfortunately, politics these days is about staying elected, as opposed to doing good things.
– Jerry Doyle
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
– Emile Durkheim
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
– Bob Dylan
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
– Belva Davis
In our dreams we are always young.
– Sarah Louise Delany
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.
– Gail Devers
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
– Louise Driscoll
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
– Umberto Eco
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
– Umberto Eco
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
– Marian Wright Edelman
I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto.' For me, there was no escape.
– Will Eisner
Dreams. Dreams induce me. Seduce me. My spirit is taken by the dark and surreal and beautiful and seraphic-winged in ethereal heaven and bleeding and burning stygian vortex images that haunt me and have been doing so since early childhood.
– Kim Elizabeth
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
– Kim Elizabeth
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
– Henry Ellis
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
– M. C. Escher
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
– William Faulkner
The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.
– Suzanne Fields
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
– Ernst Fischer
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
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
– Dave Freudenthal
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
– 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
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
– Robert Fulghum
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
– Zelda Fitzgerald