Quotes About Dreams
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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.
T. E. Lawrence
All men of action are dreamers.
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.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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.
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
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 do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher
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.
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
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.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
In dreams begins responsibility.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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.
Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
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.
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
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.
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
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.
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.
We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
Whatever you do, never stop dreaming.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.