Dreams Quotes

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

Henry David Thoreau

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996

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

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Schille

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

Steven Patrick Callahan

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

John Dryden

All of our dreams can come true - - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.

Joseph Heller, Catch 22

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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 XXIII

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

L. J. Suenens

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.

Henry Vaughn

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Victor Hugo

Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Diana Scharf Hunt

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

The only thing that comes from a sleeping man are dreams.

Tupac Amaru Shaku

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

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.

Erich Fromm

If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Susan Sontag

Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them.

Josie Bisset

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann von Goethe

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Dr. Jonas Salk

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

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

You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by.

Eric Pio