Dreams Quotes

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
– Ruth Handler
We control the content of our dreams.
– Thom Gunn
We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.
– Sonia Braga
We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
– Bernard Loiseau
We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.
– Katie Holmes
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
– Joan Didion
Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
– Emmitt Smith
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
– Khalil Gibran
Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
– Junior Seau
Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
– Roberto Cavalli
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
– Candace Parker
To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
– Lady Gaga
To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.
– Josh Hopkins
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.
– Giorgio de Chirico
To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.
– Rick Yune
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
– Christina Aguilera
To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.
– Rickey Henderson
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.
– Anais Nin
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
– Benjamin Carson
Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
– Simon Sinek
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
– Sara Teasdale
Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
– Novak Djokovic
This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.
– Corey Hart
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
This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.
– Radha Mitchell
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
– Trey Anastasio
They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
– Ruth Handler
They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.
– Alice Cooper
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
– Ethan A. Hitchcock
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
– Rachel Griffiths
There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.
– Tyra Banks
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
– Paul Bryant
There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.
– Justin Theroux
There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
– Carrie Fisher
There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
– William Shatner
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
– James Cameron
There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams.
– Katy Perry
Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.
– Derek Luke
The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
– Samuel Johnson
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
– William S. Burroughs
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
– Ed Smith
The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.
– Henry Reed
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
– Ella Maillart
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
– Harlan Coben
The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.
– Andrew Card
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
– Tupac Shakur
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.
– Jonathan Raban
The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.
– Kyle Shewfelt
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
The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.
– Graham Russell
The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.
– Sebastian Coe
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
– Sigmund Freud
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.
– Atifete Jahjaga
The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.
– Stedman Graham
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
– Charlotte Bronte
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
– James Fallows
The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.
– Mario Diaz-Balart
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
– Gaston Bachelard
The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
– Joan Jett
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
– George Santayana
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
– Marya Mannes
The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
– Dick Cheney
The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
– Christopher Alexander
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
– Ed Markey
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
– Oprah Winfrey
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.
– Cleveland Abbe
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
– Elizabeth Bishop
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
– Brian De Palma
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
– Joseph Barbera
That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
– Sandra Bernhard
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!
– Felix Bloch
Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.
– Peter Arno
Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
– Giotto di Bondone
Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.
– LL Cool J
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
– Armstrong Williams
Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
– Karl Malone
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
– Paul Wellstone
Sometimes your dreams come true.
– Frank Bruno
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
– Black Elk
So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
– Sally Kirkland
So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.
– Danny DeVito
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
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
– Suze Orman
So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
– Rick Baker
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
– John Malkovich
Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
– Pamela Stephenson
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
– Lorraine Hansberry
Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
– Lois McMaster Bujold
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
– Victoria Woodhull
Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.
– Anna Benson
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.
– Jim Woodring
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
– Ben Nicholson
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
– Rose Tremain
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
– Joseph Conrad
People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
– Tracy Chapman