Dreams Quotes: Inspiring the Pursuit of Imagination and Ambition
The Power of Dreams
Dreams are the spark that ignites our imagination, fuels our ambition, and propels us forward on the path of self-discovery and achievement. They are the manifestation of our deepest desires and the catalyst for bringing about meaningful change in our lives and the world around us. In this article, we delve into the power of dreams and present a collection of inspiring quotes that celebrate the beauty, resilience, and transformative nature of dreaming.
Dreams have the ability to transcend boundaries, defy limitations, and push us beyond our comfort zones. They encourage us to believe in ourselves, pursue our passions, and embrace the journey of self-realization. When we dare to dream, we unlock a world of infinite possibilities and set in motion the forces that can turn our aspirations into reality.
Words of Inspiration: Quotes to Fuel Your Dreams
Throughout history, visionaries, artists, and dreamers have shared their insights and wisdom about the profound nature of dreams. Their quotes encapsulate the essence of dreaming, inspiring us to embrace our imaginations, set audacious goals, and never lose sight of our dreams. Below, we present a collection of inspiring quotes that will fuel your ambition, ignite your creativity, and remind you of the limitless potential that lies within you.
I know it’s cliche to say, ‘When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.’ But it is true: When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. So I just want people to follow their dreams.
Those inevitable dreams where you can’t get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence’s biography on him, ‘Hold on to Your Dreams,’ one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it’s scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.
I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don’t accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
For anyone who’s a fan of the ‘X-files’ show – I mean, I have the ultimate role. I got to deal with Mulder. I got to talk to him; I had a fight sequence with him. Really, for anyone who is a fan of the show, I think I fulfilled a lot of young boys’ dreams.
Pursue your dreams but have a backup plan.
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.
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.
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.
I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I’d got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.
The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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.
Go to school and get your education and follow 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.
They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
Bhanurekhan never wanted to be an actress. She had different dreams and desires.
Music gives people the ability to dream, to leave their troubles behind for a moment and experience something beautiful. You create dreams and that’s a beautiful thing!
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.
There were a lot of things that my parents could not do or afford. And when they put all that dreams into me and when I could not fulfill them, I felt very disappointed. And that was the only reason I wanted to dance with an artificial leg.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before ‘Saturday Night Live’ did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
A tragic car accident put me in a wheelchair and dashed my hopes and dreams for the future.
People’s dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It’s what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
I really think you can manifest your dreams. You can manifest your destiny. If you want something hard enough and you’re willing to work for it, I think you can get it. I truly believe that.
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.
Believe in and follow your dreams.
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
I have accomplished my childhood dream: to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I’ve been truly blessed.
Everyone dreams of playing Wimbledon and winning it. I am glad this dream came true for me so fast in my career. It feels great after so many years of struggle.
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
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.
When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling – fanciful storytelling – can only be told through fashion photography. It’s the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.
Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.
I’m happy, I’m healthy, I am not looking backwards – I’m only heading towards some kind of dreams of mine and living my dreams.
Sleep is the best meditation.
I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it’s never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.
There are awful things that happen, dreams get crushed, you build yourself back up again, and then there are, hopefully, incredible partners in misery that say, ‘Let me help you. I’ve been there before.’
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.
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
I’m living out my dreams every day.
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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.
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
I’m a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.
‘Do What You Gotta Do’ is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you’re up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.
There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.
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?
The moment you’ve convinced someone that you truly understand her dreams and feelings, mental and behavioral change becomes possible, and the foundation for a breakthrough has been laid.
I just wish people would realize that anything’s possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.
I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.
Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.
I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams.
I have lots of ambitions. I’d love to do theatre. I’d like to be in ‘Tea With Mussolini 2;’ I’d like to touch Meryl Streep – which would involve being with her in some exotic location. I have lots of fantastical dreams.
When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
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.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you’ll never know who u will meet in your dreams.
As a single mom, I want to say that having a child does not have to be a setback. You can still reach your dreams and teach your kids to reach for their dreams.
Someone once told me… ‘Anh believe in your dreams!’ I always have and always will, and I think that if you follow your dreams in life, you really can live an amazing life.
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
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.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
The past is always – one moment it’s what happened three minutes ago, and one minute it’s what happened 30 years ago. And they flow into each other in ways that we can’t predict and that we keep discovering in dreams, which keep bringing up feelings and moments, some of which we never actually saw.
Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.
Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives’ and their spouses’ donations go to Democrats. It’s like they’ve got some kind of little sweet deal, where we’ll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.
I want to follow my dreams. I want to make sure that I put myself first and accomplish what I need to accomplish.
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
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.
I chased my dreams. In the end, find what gets you excited and chase it.
Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.
Many people say some of their best ideas come from dreams. Arguably the greatest Beatles song, ‘Yesterday,’ came to Paul McCartney in a dream.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
In dreams begins responsibility.
I feel as though, if you’re able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality.
All men of action are dreamers.
My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
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.
Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America.
I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow your dreams.
SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, ‘That’s fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,’ which was fine because I’m a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.
Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
My dreams of taking the West End by storm as a dancer flickered but then faded; my father’s ambition to see me in a steady office job was tried and abandoned. But I had won a national speaking award, had stood for election to the local council, had begun to travel and took a job working for the Labour Party.
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
And our dreams are who we are.
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.
I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I’m dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
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.
Field of Dreams is probably our generation’s It’s A Wonderful Life.
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Don’t be afraid of your dreams.
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.
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.
Tell me about yourself – your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.
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.
If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn’t come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they’re going to be tomorrow.
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
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.
At the end of the day, stick up for yourself whether you have spiky hair, long hair, blonde hair, black hair, whatever it is, stick up for yourself and go for your dreams because at the end of the day, you can pretty much accomplish anything if you put your mind to it.
Your dreams, ambition and experiences are creating a new person in you every day.
I’ll see you in my dreams.
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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.
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.
Books that distribute things… with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Even coming from small towns, the biggest dreams are possible.
I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep.
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
It really is never too late, it really is never too early to figure out your goals and dreams and what you love.
I focus very much on the job and my goals and dreams.
I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one’s dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks.
We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem – even to you – I don’t care: You have to let that out.
Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
I have dreams of playing in major clubs in Europe.
I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
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.
I am not Padma Shri Manoj Bajpayee. I am Manoj Bajpayee, an outsider who saw dreams and stayed on the fringes of Mumbai and worked day and night to get work.
Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.
My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see… Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No – we will not do that.
I feel like I’ve accomplished all my fantasies and childhood dreams. I had nothing; now I have everything.
I have not forgotten about my dreams to become a singer. If given the chance, I want to take part in a drama OST making and also try out for musicals.
As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.
I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.
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.
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
I was studying psychology honours and was very happy in that zone. I had dreams of pursuing higher education. When the first film happened and another one after that, I was not sure about sticking around in this career. It was never my dream.
I can’t comprehend that I’m in the film of ‘Les Miserables.’ It’s one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.
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.
Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
Don’t fall in love too fast. You think you know their dreams, but you just know their plans. Plans come from the head, but dreams come from the heart.
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
Good dreams don’t come cheap, you’ve got to pay for them and If you just dream when you’re asleep this is no way for them to come alive… to survive.
I want everyone to know that they can accomplish anything they want at any age if they just be themselves. I want to encourage millions to chase their dreams and to never change. Everyone should also know how to throw a good right hook!
It’s important for people to know what they want, to know who they are, to follow their dreams and be the best versions of themselves.
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.
I was watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams.
Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
The idea of having dreams that don’t come true is really terrifying.
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.
You need to have dreams, you need to go for it, otherwise why would you be a footballer?
I didn’t want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.
Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
I had dreams of becoming an officer and a gentleman. But hey: One out of two ain’t bad.
Everybody deserves an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
The inner confidence in knowing who you are, believing in your dreams, and following your heart, is what make you radiate from within.
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Don’t be afraid to have dreams.
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
I think having a strong female figure in my mom as an in-house role model was huge and really motivated me to continue to pursue my passion and my dreams.
My mom was always so supportive; she enabled me to pursue my dreams. I danced on Broadway as a kid, and she would never miss a show.
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
Dreams are a scientific fact.
As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.
For many people, the age of 20 is when they first reach adulthood, and it’s a time full of ideals and dreams. But when I was 20, a lot of misfortune came along. I spent a year in the hospital and couldn’t move, and I was forced to think a lot.
Screenplays I didn’t really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
You don’t ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.
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.
Ideas are all around you – everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
I’ll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don’t, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that’s nowhere land.
I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
We work just as hard as any footballer, period. We go through the same experiences and heartaches. We make the same sacrifices. We leave our families behind to chase our dreams, too.
I don’t like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they’re done.
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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.
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.
I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don’t they?
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
You can plant a dream.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
All my music has always been about positive, having ambition, having goals, having dreams, and believing in yourself.
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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.
For me they are no different, reality and dreams.
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
I really believe in positive energy and positive thinking and dreams and all that type of stuff.
God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
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.
Follow your dreams. It’s always too early to quit.
Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That’s what we’re shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.
I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn’t change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.
The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
What is the deepest passion for me and for us is the historic investment in the middle class and in – as I say often because I was that guy growing up – the dreams of those who look up who want to get into the middle class. That I feel the strongest about.
I’ve had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother’s had just the opposite.
I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.
Look for the light. Look for it in everything. Look for it in yourself, in your children, in your job, and in your dreams. Look for it in the food you eat and in the people you surround yourself with.
Everyone loves a comeback story, and everyone loves the underdog as well. I kind of feel like I’ve been the underdog. Hopefully that inspires people to not give up on themselves and their lives and not give up on their dreams.
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.
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.
I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school – no way. And I had no idea I’d be coaching girls. It’s wild.
In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we’ve accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.
The most powerful step that anyone can take to turn their dreams into reality is a simple one. You just need to start.
When you focus solely on valuation and market share, you win some and you lose some. When you focus on the needs of your customers and help them achieve their dreams, you win every time.
It’s cool to see all your dreams come to fruition.
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that’s where they stay.
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.
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.
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams.
How does it feel? Really, I don’t know because I never try to feel more or less than any player in Leverkusen or Mexico. I don’t feel like I’m more famous than other players; I’m just one more footballer who wants to achieve their dreams and to try to help their team as much as they can to do that.
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?
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?
Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
Three of my childhood dreams went unfulfilled. I never saw a no-hitter, never saw a triple play, and never caught a ball that had been hit into the stands. But I did see the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a World Series game when I was 10.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
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.
It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.
Every single fighter in the UFC dreams to be the champ.
You can be rich or poor but you should have the guts to go with dreams and work hard to make them come true.
As citizens, I’m asking you not to leave any child behind. I’m asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave, so that every child knows that their future matters and their dreams are possible.
We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.
You have to know your identity. It’s the biggest thing in wanting to pursue creative dreams.
I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents… I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.
I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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.
Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It’s like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
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. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
You have a responsibility to move your dreams forward, no matter what.
Growing up, my dad was ‘get a real job, don’t go pursuing your dreams, that’s how you become homeless.’ So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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.
Burzum is the reflections of my personality. It’s my dreams and desires.
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
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.
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
People are always advised to follow your dreams, but in ‘That Will Never Work’ I show them how!
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
I can’t remember any dreams in my life. There’s so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God.
I mean, I’m 48 years old and I’ve been through a lot in my life – you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations… We all have dreams.
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.
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
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.
I’ve accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
I’m not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.
A career as an actor was never there in my wildest dreams and here I am getting such good roles and doing films that are so appreciated.
Men don’t come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We’re looking across the room at you, and we don’t care about your hopes and dreams. We don’t care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.
I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
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.’
I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can’t dream about it anymore. It’s easier to settle for less.
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
You’ll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.
Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There’s nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.
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.
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.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
As long as you pray and believe in your dreams, anything is possible.
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
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.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
I don’t remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money… and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
There are so many dreams that I’d like to follow.
Aren’t we all dreamers? It’s only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
I feel like I’m making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.
Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.
When you focus on your dreams, great things happen.
As an older generation, we need to give all our young people love and the possibility of realizing their dreams. For instance, if I get really political, the fact that some people can’t go to college, can’t even think about college, that’s not American; that’s not right.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people’s interests, aspirations, and dreams.
In dreams begin responsibilities.
Swimming is a life-saving skill, so just the fact that the sport that I love can give so much back to other people – and inspire them to join something that they never thought they could do or go after their dreams – is something that is really special to me.
Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box.
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
It was Delhi that gave me the platform to achieve my dreams.
I’ve never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
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.
I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.
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.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Life is short. You’ve got to live your dreams.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
I don’t dream songs. I’m more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.
I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang ‘I’ll See You In My Dreams,’ and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale – my dreams become the substances of my life.
You can’t break my spirit, it’s my dreams you take.
I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don’t yet think things are impossible.
I’m fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That’s why I’m trying to enjoy it so much.
The 1890s was perhaps the most Gothic decade ever: ‘Dracula,’ ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The Time Machine,’ not to mention ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘The Interpretation of Dreams,’ were all written between 1890 and 1899.
I’m not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I’d better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
I am a mix of both my parents. Like my father, I don’t let my dreams die; I’m shy and respect women. However, if I am pushed against the wall, I attack like my mother.
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.
I always make my dreams into goals.
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people’s lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.
If you don’t have dreams, you don’t have a life.
A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.
We want to make our dreams come true and the Champions League is a dream for all of us.
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
I never wanted to give in to my condition. My life changed a lot but I didn’t want it to change my dreams or goals.
I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.
If you get too big for your boots, if you’ve got big dreams, you’re gonna get them broken or shattered.
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
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!
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.
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
I grew up a Washington Redskins fan, right? I’ve always wanted to play for the team as a kid. I always had dreams and aspirations to play for that team. So, for them to change the name, it really hurt. It hurt deep down inside.
The best time for most people is the time when we hit the bed. To drain the entire day’s energy into the undiscovered realm of dreams. To see and meet the unknown while we snooze swimming in the clouds.
My dreams are huge, man. I dream all day every day. Do I want to get into restaurants one day? Yeah! Do I want to get into hospitality and have my own hotels? Yeah, I do!
I’ve always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.
Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.
Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.
In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.
You keep dreaming big, never put the limit on your dreams, and believe that everything can come true.
The Ellevest target client is the professional woman who either has her own money or has agency over her family’s money. She is among the 75 million women in the U.S. workforce who want to take financial control and is looking for a straightforward way to achieve her dreams on her own terms.
Dreams do come true if you work hard and you get your head down.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It’s not always so perfect like that.
I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
Never let your dreams go away.
My dreams are to unify the world light-heavyweight titles like Roy Jones did and then at cruiserweight before then possibly the heavyweight division.
I’d say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children’s dreams come true, and it’s better than anything else.
No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
You have to have patience, work hard and preserve in order to follow your dreams.
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
If you dream of becoming an eagle, you follow your dreams and not the words of a bunch of chickens.
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.
That’s another piece of advice: Don’t go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you’re a doctor – then go to college.
We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
If you trust in yourself and fight for it until the end, your dreams will come true.
There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
At the end of the day, I think people just need to start listening to their hearts and their gut feelings and their dreams, because that’s what I did.
You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I’m older and wiser and I think I’d make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
We’re in the business of selling pleasure. We don’t sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
I believe people have to follow their dreams – I did.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
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.
People think it’s funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It’s very private. I don’t see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I’m wandering around dreaming anyway.
It doesn’t matter how you look. As long as you train hard, you focus and you’re hungry, and that drive is in you to follow your dreams, everything is possible.
Ever since ‘The Goldbergs’ began, one of my dreams was to write a homage to ‘Highlander.’
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
I would have dreams all the time about me playing in the NFL. Every day I woke up, I said to myself, you know, I’m going to work hard, you know, this day to get to that next level.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren’t a lot who get to see them realized.
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
I have very vivid dreams – almost always action-adventure. I’m often on the run. I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies – just drifting off to the movies.
Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it.
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we want it to be.
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.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Fuel your kids’ dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.
I’ve got heaps of dreams.
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.
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.
Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.
There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free – the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.
Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
Before I went to work for ‘Playboy,’ I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master’s. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl.
Ever since I retired from competitive bodybuilding, one of my dreams has been to offer an affordable way for independent gym owners to make a comfortable income and empower them to help the sick and diseased at the same time.
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.
In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in – and I never went.
This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn’t speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they’re struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
‘Chewing Gum Dreams’ should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.
You know, songs like ‘Rock’n Me’ were actually written to be played in large… for a hundred thousand people kind of gatherings. And a lot of what came out on ‘Fly Like an Eagle’ and ‘Book of Dreams’ was music that was put together to be played in big, big venues with big light shows.
Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn’t an answer so much.
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
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.
There is a reason they called it chasing your dreams and not walking after them.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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.
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.
For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It’s very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.
Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.
When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.
Integrity is critical to our lives – and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.
Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.
I am a firm believe in the power of dreams, because the world is basically one giant realization of people’s collective dreams come true. We need to dream to aspire to do something that keeps us striving. But those dreams and ideas and wants mean nothing without execution, which doesn’t usually happen without a plan.
In my wildest dreams I never thought – well, I never thought I’d work.
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.
I want to find someone who’s really into something like I’m really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I’ve got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I’ll cheer them on in their dreams.
But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
We live in America where each and every person has the equal opportunity to take their iPhone or a smartphone and create something and put it online and have the equal ability to blow up and be successful. It’s a tool I hope we inspire tons of people to pick up and go after their dreams.
Dreaming men are haunted men.
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.
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.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
When we can’t dream any longer we die.
I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It’s wild and incredible.
For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.
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.
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
I don’t think I’m the face of the city or the Houston Astros. I’m just another guy who is playing hard to make dreams come true.
Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
To wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give a reality to one’s dreams.
I’m a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life – people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ‘reality.’
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.
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who’s miserable in it – men and women alike – and anyone who’s suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
The road to our dreams has many detours.
I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy’s actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
You know, my dad served in the President’s Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people’s lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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.
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.
You can’t predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
Dreams seem to have a will of their own.
In a democracy, if you don’t get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.
That’s what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
All my records – ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix,’ ‘Wichita Lineman,’ ‘Galveston,’ ‘Rhinestone Cowboy,’ ‘Dreams of the Everyday Housewife’ – they all had strings on them.
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn’t exist.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Go out and chase your dreams no matter how crazy it looks.
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.
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.
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.
My bedroom is my favorite chill out zone, where after a hectic day, I sign off to land in my dreams.
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.
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
Follow your heart, and don’t be subservient to anyone. Shut out the world, and only listen to your heart to fulfill your dreams.
There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn’t happen for them.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
My parents have always encouraged me to follow my dreams and do what makes me happy.
I would like to say every moment counts for you, so make the time that you spend for your dreams a very special moment, make sure that you do something that you’ll be happy with when you go back and look at yourself.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn’t sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people’s dreams when you had to let them go.
Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.
Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box.
It’s really the city of Detroit that I owe the thanks to and all the people along the way, so many people that played a role in my success in giving me the dreams and aspirations to go to college and do the things that I did.
After more than a decade as the editor of ‘Wired’ magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams – a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics – to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.
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.
I’ve always been fascinated by dreams – they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain’s obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure.
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don’t put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist’s early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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.
I have some big dreams. I really want my work to be worldwide and for a lot of people to hear it, just because I have a lot to say.
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.
Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
Al Haymon, one thing I can say about him, is he is a very honest guy. Very honest. He don’t sell dreams, he makes dreams come true. And that’s what he did for me.
I want people to know me for following my dreams.
Truly, this is a nation that sees itself as one that instills hope and is really about allowing people to pursue their dreams.
My grandfather and my uncle took me to the gym. I was kinda wild; they thought that boxing would teach me a lesson, but I don’t think in their wildest dreams they could imagine the success I would have.
By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won’t be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.
As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.
I’m like the luckiest girl in the world. I’ve gotten to be a princess, I’ve gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
Fight for your dreams and success. This is what has always guided me.
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.
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.
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.
I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
It’s good to have plans and dreams, but don’t be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.
When your dreams include service to others – accomplishing something that contributes to others – it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life – in jeeps – and upset all my dreams.
In conclusion, dreams quotes serve as a powerful reminder of the transformative power of dreaming and the boundless potential that lies within each of us. They encourage us to listen to the whispers of our hearts, pursue our passions, and create a life that is guided by our deepest desires. Let these quotes inspire you to embrace your dreams, set ambitious goals, and embark on a journey of self-discovery and achievement. Remember, within the realm of dreams, there is a world of endless possibilities waiting to be explored and realized.
