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45 Quotes on Dreams

Learn what the greats say about dreams.

Learn about the power of your dreams...

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. - Steven Spielberg

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. - Jack Kerouac

All men of action are dreamers. - James Huneker

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. - Elias Canetti

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. - Joy Page

Dream in a pragmatic way. - Aldous Huxley

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams are necessary to life. - Anais Nin

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. - Anais Nin

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. - Victor Hugo

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman

Everybody's a dreamer. - John Lithgow

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better. - Brian Schweitzer

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. - M. C. Escher

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. - Madonna

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. - Eugene Ionesco

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
- Les Brown

In dreams begins responsibility. - William Butler Yeats

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck

Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it. - George Lucas

When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme. - Jiminy Cricket

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes

It may be that those who do most, dream most. - Stephen Butler Leacock

We are such stuff / As dreams are made on
- William Shakespeare

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. - Steven Conrad

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
- Swami Vivekanada

In dreams begin responsibilities. - William Butler Yeats

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- William Butler Yeats

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream,
Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Without a dream you'll not get anywhere. - Kofi Annan

The center of every man's existence is a dream. - G.K. Chesterton

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts. - Henry Bromel

We need men who can dream of things that never were. - John F. Kennedy

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them. - Man Ray

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. - Oprah Winfrey

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A dream is a wish your heart makes. - Cinderella

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