Everybody has dreams. Dreams inspire hope and excitement. which will ultimately ensure that you maintain a high level of focus to achieve your goals in both your professional and personal lives. Few people aspire to be famous; instead, some want to be business tycoons or outstanding athletes. Your path to recognizing your lofty goals is paved with many challenges, and it may seem difficult to maintain your dream. Today, I’d like to share dream quotes from our collection that are inspiring, motivating, and thought – provoking. I’m hoping these dreaming quotes will inspire you and prevent you from giving up on your goals.
Dream quotes
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
-JANOS ARANY
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil
-JAMES LANE ALLEN
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit — enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
-ERIC ANDERSON
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success – the earliest spark in the dreaming youth – is this; dream a great dream.
-JOHN A. APPLEMAN
No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you’re lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.
HARRIET DU AUTERMONT
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
-TONI CADE BAMBERA
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
-JOEL BARKER
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
-ROGER WARD BABSON
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
-MAX BEERBOHM
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Motivating Dreaming quotes
Here are some dream quotes, dream sayings, and dream proverbs from some of our time’s greatest – and most surprising – thinkers. Read them to gain a better understanding of your dreams and the nature of your reality.
Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
-LESTER ROBERT BITTEL
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.
-LESTER LOUIS BROWN
The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream.
-MICHAEL BROWN
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.
-PEARL SYDENSTRICKER BUCK
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
-EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that …
-GEORGE DENIS CARLIN
When you have a dream you’ve got to grab it and never let go.
-CAROL BURNETT
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
-MADAME CHIANG
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Best quotes About Dreams
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
-MARY BETH DANIELSON
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
-BELVA DAVIS
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
-PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream disappears.
-JIM DIETZ
The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, “The dream of a waking man.
-LAERTIUS DIOGENES
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-WALTER ELIAS DISNEY
All of our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
-WALTER ELIAS DISNEY
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
-BOB DYLAN
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
-SUE ATCHLEY EBAUGH
To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
-BERNARD EDMONDS
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Inspiring dream quotes
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
-MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about.
-JOSEPH EPSTEIN
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
-DOUGLAS H. EVERETT
Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
-WILLIAM FAULKNER
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe.
-ANATOLE FRANCE
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that’s where they stay.
-SARAH MARGARET FULLER
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
-KAHLIL GIBRAN
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
-SARAH MARGARET FULLER
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Dream big quotes
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
-JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
-KAHLIL GIBRAN
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
-JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
-AMY GRANT
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
-NAPOLEAN HILL
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
-LIBBY HOUSTON
You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
-OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, II
Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die. Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.
-JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES
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Dreaming Big Quotes
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
-THOMAS JEFFERSON
The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
-JOHN KEATS
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
-STEPHEN BUTLER LEACOCK
A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
-JOHN LOCKE
To the degree we’re not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
-PETER MCWILLIAMS
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
-FRIEDRICH VON HARDENBERG NOVALIS
Only dreamers can teach us to soar.
-ANNE MARIE PIERCE
If you know it’s going to happen there’s no need to call it a dream.
-ERIC PO
If you don’t make your dreams a reality, reality will take away your dreams.
-ERIC PO
They who dream by day are cognizant of man things which escape those who dream only by night.
-EDGAR ALLAN POE
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Follow your dreams quotes
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.
-POPE JOHN
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.
-SANSKRIT PROVERB
Those who lose dreaming are lost.
-AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PROVERB
If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.
-YIDDISH PROVERB
Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.
-KAREN RAVEN
Having a dream isn’t stupid. It’s not having a dream that’s stupid.
-submitted by Lu Boon Ping
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