I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
Martin Luther King, Jr.Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John UpdikeIf you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Terry PratchettAll our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt DisneyYou may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
John LennonIf you can dream it you can do it.
Walt DisneyMotivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
Benjamin FranklinI live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
Herman HesseDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
BuddhaIt's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Paulo CoelhoDo all you can to make your dreams come true.
Joel OsteenYou must find your dream... but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.
Herman HesseThe best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Muhammad AliTake up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it dream of it live on that idea. Let the brain muscles nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami VivekanandaNothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl SandburgYou know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. SeussHope is a waking dream.
AristotleIt does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. RowlingChampions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad AliThe biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah WinfreyWe do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true, they ruin our dreams.
Eric HofferThe timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil GibranThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor RooseveltSome 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 CarlinDon't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark TwainYou see things, and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard ShawTrust in dreams for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Kahlil GibranIf you can dream it then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig ZiglarThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William ShakespeareYou must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his personal legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t a true love… The love that speaks the language of the world.
Paulo CoelhoDreams are the language of God.
Paulo CoelhoFight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.
Paulo CoelhoLike a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Jean PaulWho looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes.
Carl JungYesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil GibranWhat difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul, but fears to come near you?
Kahlil GibranIt is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfCreationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac AsimovWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream, it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil GibranCherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon HillI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas JeffersonA lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel ButlerLook at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Abdul KalamHe felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas AdamsThe world indeed is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves but they are like heat haze.
BuddhaTravelers repose and dream among my leaves.
William BlakeWhen a person really desires something all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Paulo CoelhoI slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath TagoreThe very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William ShakespeareBut are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. LovecraftTell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo CoelhoDeep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan PoeI'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.
Mike TysonYou can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt DisneyFor my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van GoghA dream doesn't become reality through magic, it takes sweat determination and hard work.
Colin PowellI like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient, in living it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. SeussWhy does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da VinciDreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund FreudWhat is life? A madness. 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 BarcaA dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Denis WaitleyHope is the dream of a waking man.
AristotleDemocracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus and Heaven.
H. L. MenckenA tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie ChaplinI prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Kahlil GibranThe great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.
Oprah WinfreyThe key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
Oprah WinfreyA dream itself is but a shadow.
William ShakespeareOnce we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
Rabindranath TagoreLife is a journey. How we travel is really up to us. We can just flow with the tide or follow our own dreams.
Paulo CoelhoBe fully awake if you want to dream
Paulo CoelhoAmerica wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
P. J. O'RourkeYou learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.
Herman HesseI have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.
Herman HesseThis life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
BuddhaFriends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David ThoreauYet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfHe was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or as his wife would have it an idiot.
Douglas AdamsEverybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
Doug CouplandA 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.
Oscar WildeTo understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil GibranThe whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave FlaubertWhere much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert HubbardObviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits it is part of my own being.
Sigmund FreudMy own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe, I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Bob DylanMaybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
Kim KardashianDreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again, and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais NinThe fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous and I never dreamt I would be famous.
J. K. RowlingMr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
Samuel ButlerEverybody's youth is a dream a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldLive the life you've dreamed.
Henry David ThoreauThe world embarrasses me and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
VoltaireAnyone can escape into sleep we are all geniuses when we dream the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emile M. CioranI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.They call it the 'American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it.
George CarlinWhen you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm ForbesJudge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy parent's divorce and hard times at school all those things combined to mold me to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.
Christina AguileraI'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
Helen HayesI do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry FordAll successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be ideal in every respect and then they work every day toward their distant vision that goal or purpose.
Brian TracyThere are powers inside of you which if you could discover and use would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Orison Swett MardenMost of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale CarnegieIndia can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
Abdul KalamOur life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor HugoFor centuries New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.
Hillary ClintonEach man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor HugoDreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James Matthew BarrieWhen the legends die the dreams end, there is no more greatness.
TecumsehWhen you are old and gray and full of sleep and nodding by the fire take down this book and slowly read and dream of the soft look your eyes had once and of their shadows deep.
William Butler YeatsDreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David ThoreauWe're all dreamers.
Ray BradburyReality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac ShakurI dreamed I was a butterfly flitting around in the sky, then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
ZhuangziOld age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift, in his youth he built an asylum for the insane in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren KierkegaardHow can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping and all our thoughts are a dream, or whether we are awake and talking to one another in the waking state?
PlatoTo all to each a fair good-night and pleasing dreams and slumbers light.
Walter ScottSome look at things that are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
George Bernard ShawI have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.On this narrow planet we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteThe only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac ShakurI'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 DisneyThe myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.
Joseph CampbellIf 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 MandelaAll men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett MardenDream 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 AllenTake if you must this little bag of dreams Unloose the cord and they will wrap you round.
William Butler YeatsBoth 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 FrommIt's a dream scenario for me.
Lance ArmstrongThe success I have achieved in bodybuilding motion pictures and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerGet excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it taste it and see it from a mile away.
Denis WaitleyI really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me but I am very willing to put up with the mistake if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men to render it endurable even when not quite clearly made out which it never can be till the Posterity whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves has sanctioned or denied it while it can touch us no further.
Lord ByronYou have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Denis WaitleyIt takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma BombeckBe a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream you're dead.
Jim ValvanoThe past is a ghost the future a dream and all we ever have is now.
Bill CosbyFor even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaA goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon HillThat's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
Paul RyanBusiness and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt RomneyWe cast away priceless time in dreams born of imagination fed upon illusion and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandDreams will get you nowhere a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar GracianTo fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given a chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette DavisMan alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality, man alone can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon HillYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes.
Carl JungI had this dream and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
Lady GagaMy age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
Paul CezanneHow do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Jim ValvanoThe first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
Bill CosbyI hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun and I did want it to be about individuality but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
Lady Gaga