As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.
There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.
You’re supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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.
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.
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
You gotta go after your dreams and do it. Go and do it.
If you work hard and enjoy what you are doing and go after your dreams anything is possible.
You reach for the stars and you work your butt off to achieve your dreams. If you fall short, you fall short, but you say you gave it your best.
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
We’re not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
It’s hard because people always say, ‘Follow your dreams,’ but it’s not a perfect world, and things don’t always work out. But you’ve just got to work hard, and you can’t take things for granted.
Know thyself. Remain steadfast. Follow your dreams. These are great directives and perfectly fitting for graduates. But reality is that achieving dreams takes a solid education – education that remains elusive for too many Americans.
I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow your dreams.
Don’t let the reasons why you don’t accomplish your dreams be because of you or a decision that you made. Do everything that you can possibly do to achieve that dream.
Just because you have a baby on your hip – or one on the way or two at home – doesn’t mean you can’t go after your dreams.
I tell kids to have dreams, have goals, and believe in them because if you have any doubt, worry or fear, it will choke the life out of your dreams and goals.
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Life is going by, and if you don’t do something about your dreams and make them a reality and start to love who you are as yourself, then you will not be able to embrace any of those dreams. Who you are is the immense magic.
At the end of the day, you’re going to go through obstacles, but with passion, you will be successful, and you will accomplish whatever your dreams are.
I want to use this big worldwide UFC platform to show people that don’t let anyone or anything come between you and your dreams and your career.
The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.
I’ve got a young man who works for me who says you don’t need to discover your dreams – you need to recover them.
To become a great player, you’ve got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you’ve got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you’ve got to fight to make your dreams come true.
I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it’s like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.
At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they’ll come true, but I didn’t do that.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
Both my stepdad and my dad have said, ‘Follow your heart and your dreams, but Tessa, this is a business and you need to become the best.’ They don’t sugarcoat things and I’m very, very blessed for that.
I’m proud to carry that torch and be like, ‘I’m gay! I’m black! Hang your dreams on me. Hang your hopes on me. I’ll carry them to the best of my ability.’
There’s no guarantee, and there’s no proper path to follow that will directly lead you to where you want to go, but stick with it. If you know in your bones that this is what you were put on this earth to do, and the world would be a darker place without you pursuing your dreams, then keep at 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!
My first tattoo is a French proverb, and it says, ‘Dream your life, live your dreams.’
Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box.
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.
‘Shake It Up’ definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.
It’s cool to see all your dreams come to fruition.
There are periods in your life in which you dream much more as an artist – you remember your dreams in the morning, and there are periods in your life that for one month or two months you don’t remember any dreams.
Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
You go after your dreams no matter how many obstacles. You want to go forward. That’s what I did.
You’ll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
Life is short. You’ve got to live your dreams.
You have to work on your dreams every day, and that’s what I am doing.
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.
I know it can be difficult to try and achieve your dreams when you don’t have the same advantages as some other people may have, but this is a country full of opportunity where amazing things can happen, if you are willing to hustle and be smart about it.
The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it’s all about the group. Those conflicting ideas were always a battle in my head.
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.
It’s important to believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams and to not let anyone tell you different.
All I can say is that it’s important to follow your dreams.
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.
I think there’s this standard in our society that when we become a mother, we just become a mother, and that’s all you are. That’s an amazing thing, but I think you’re doing your child a disservice by not following your dreams either. I work really hard to make sure that I’m chasing all the things I always dreamed of.
Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.
I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn’t it? That’s the place where your dreams will come true. It’s an act of faith now; they think that’s going to sort things out.
If something has not been part of your dreams or ambitions, then you are not awestruck by it.
I feel like dreams are always a little tricky, you know? But if you just push through the struggles and the hard times, it’ll be so worth it in the end because you will be able to get to your dreams.
I want people to know that you can chase your dreams no matter where you are in your life, and it can work out. I know. It happened to me.
It seems like your dreams are your own spirit, your own soul, telling you what you’re meant to do and getting you psyched up with the idea of thinking that it was your idea all along.
To overcome any form of adversity, to not give up, to not give up on yourself, your dreams, to not sequester yourself away from people – that’s the most important thing to do with your life.
