dreams quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"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?"
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"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."
607
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities."
737
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
738
"I saw that dreams don’t respond to thoughts of someday, but only to brave actions and turbulent transitions."
739
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
740
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
741
"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rather than pushed by our memories."
742
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
743
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
744
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
745
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
746
"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."
747
"Your dream was given to you. If someone else can’t see it for you, that’s fine, it was given to you and not them. It’s your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!"
748
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
749
"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
750
"You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one."
751
"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
752
"Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams."
753
"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."
754
"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."
755
"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
756
"I grew up poor, but I didn’t have poor dreams."
757
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
758
"Hope is a waking dream."
759
"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true."
760
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
761
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
762
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
763
"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever."
764
"Dreams don’t come true unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them."
765
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
766
"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
767
"Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."
768
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
769
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."
770
"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
771
"It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
772
"We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses, but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams."
773
"But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming."
934
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
998
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!"
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