Dreams Quotes

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
– William C. Bryant
A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.
– Carl Burns
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
– Brett Butler
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
– Vic Braden
Unpinned even by rudimentary notions of time and space, dreams float or flash by, leaving in their wake trails of unease, hopes, fears and anxieties.
– Stephen Brook
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.
– Mark Burnett
If this one takes off, it could make me rich beyond my wildest dreams. And believe me, my dreams are pretty wild!
– Graham Chapman
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
– Leonard Cohen
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
– Steven Callahan
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
– Madonna Ciccone
At our best, we are in constant search of something beyond, of national dreams and destinies that we reach toward, together.
– Adrienne Clarkson
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
– Robert Conklin
O Genevieve, sweet Genevieve, The days may come, the days may go, But still the hands of mem'ry weave The blissful dreams of long ago.
– George Cooper
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To have hopes, dreams-great.
– Johnny Depp
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.
– Walt Disney
I come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrificed at the altar of getting some kind of menial job.
– Bill Dixon
Our success or failure won't be measured in charts or graphs or budget tables, but in the fulfillment of their dreams [people of Wisconsin].
– Jim Doyle
When you can help people achieve their financial dreams, their societal dreams, when you can show them how they can own a home, when you can truly do great things - that's, to me, what politics is all about. Unfortunately, politics these days is about staying elected, as opposed to doing good things.
– Jerry Doyle
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
– Belva Davis
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.
– Gail Devers
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
– Louise Driscoll
I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto.' For me, there was no escape.
– Will Eisner
Dreams. Dreams induce me. Seduce me. My spirit is taken by the dark and surreal and beautiful and seraphic-winged in ethereal heaven and bleeding and burning stygian vortex images that haunt me and have been doing so since early childhood.
– Kim Elizabeth
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
– Kim Elizabeth
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
– William Faulkner
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.
– Erich Fromm
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
– Robert Fulghum
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, the brooks for the fishes of song.
– Sam Walter Foss
Our memories are an untidy family album crammed with images and dreams, scattered and uncatalogued, and their sudden recurrence is wholly unpredictable.
– Don Freeman
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
– Judy Garland
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.
– Uri Geller
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
– Kahlil Gibran
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
– William Gibson
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
– Jackie Gleason
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
– Baltasar Gracian
I was never a bookworm. I remember reading Dr. Seuss, the Hardy Boys, Emil and the Detectives, Chip Hilton, and lots of Mark Twain and Dickens. My athletic ability did nothing but invite taunts. I was an indifferent student and an athlete with delusions of adequacy, dreams of adulation.
– John Grisham
I read a lot. And both of my parents, I think, would have wanted to be writers. It's funny how one ends up doing the things that-that parents-perhaps, the dreams that parents couldn't fulfill. I know that my mother would have been beyond herself to have had a story published in The New Yorker.
– Alma Guillermoprieto
Your eyes were dim with distant dreams, you tended, no more with care the holy fief and knew, in every space the breath of living ended -Now lift your head for joy has come to you.
– Stefan George
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
– Louis Gerstner
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
– Dorothy Gilman
I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
– Alex Haley
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.
– Werner Herzog
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
– Napoleon Hill
Let us always remember that our homeland needs people who would tackle its problems and concerns in a rational and realistic fashion as well as in a creative and balanced way, and not those who would take it to the level of dreams and unrealistic imagination in a world of illusions and sloganism.
– King Hussein
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
– Mark Victor Hansen
You can get caught up in the visceral charge of its engines, sing along with its chunky tunes and dream its romantic dreams and still feel the cold wind of the history blowing through its pages.
– Stephen Holden
I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
– Eugene Ionesco
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.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.
– Jill Johnston
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
– Alphonse Karr
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
– Edward Kennedy
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
– Soren Kierkegaard
It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it.
– Barbara Kingsolver
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
– Roger Kahn
Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.
– Robert J. Kibbee
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
– Ann Landers
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.
– Thomas E. Lawrence
This consumeristic society we all live in is very complex. We all have very high expectations - we want the big house or the car and the 2.5 kids - but we don't know whether it really brings us happiness and fulfilment because sometimes those dreams burst.
– Annie Lennox
Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.
– David Letterman
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
– Charles Lindbergh
In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
– Haniel Long
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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.
– Nelson Mandela
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
– Og Mandino
Everyone has secret ambitions; mine was to be a rock singer. I thought I could sing. But when you sing in the shower, or with headphones, what sounds good to you doesn't always sound so great to others. My parents demanded I close all our windows when I acted out my rock dreams.
– Dan Marino
As I ponder and pray in the stillness, I dream as a dreamer of dreams. A steepled church stands before me-a church with open doors. Within it I see the preacher stand; hear his voice in earnest call. But 'tis the throng that flows through the street outside that holds my anxious gaze.
– Aimee Semple McPherson
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
– Herman Melville
When I slept, armies of footnotes marched across my dreams in close-order drill.
– Ted Morgan
Hopefully my book will do very well. I'm not in it to sell a million books. I want to get my story out. I want people to know that things have not come easy to me and that I've had to work hard to get where I am. Hopefully this book will inspire other people to follow their dreams.
– Rita Mero
The warehouse with all those crates, thousands of them, stretching out as far as the eye can see. 227 metric tons of fish from around the world-fish with muscular tails wide as a weight lifter's chest, fish with big, open mouths and shining eyes, fish from deep places and deep dreams.
– David Michaelis
If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams.
– Archie Lee Moore
I had two dreams when I was a young fella. I wanted to be a policeman and a cowboy.
– Clayton Moore
I realized a dream I'd had since I was three. But I wanted to spend more time with my kids, and help them pursue their dreams.
– Jim Morris
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.
– Stevie Nicks
Dreams are necessary to life.
– Anais Nin
God wills, Man dreams, the Work is born.
– Fernando Pessoa
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
– Terry Pratchett
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
– Man Ray
Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.
– Auguste Rodin
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.
– Mitt Romney
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
– Theodore Roosevelt
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
– Jean Rostand
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
– Wilma Rudolph
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
– Benjamin Rush
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
– Henry Norris Russell
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.
– Burt Rutan
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
– Debi Thomas
The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair.
– Francis Thompson
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
– Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
– Dale E. Turner
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
– Abram L. Urban
Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.
– Mary Kay Utecht
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
– Raoul Vaneigem
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
– Alfred Victor Vigny
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
– Leonardo da Vinci
I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams.
– David Vitter