Quotations About Dreams and Aspirations

It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it.
It's not enough to know what's right,
Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth,
Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love,
Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way
for themselves will always find opportunities enough;
and if they do not find them, they will make them.
--Samuel Smiles

In dreams begins responsibility.
--William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet

I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing
or imbeciles who mean it.
--Morrie Brickman

All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true.
--T.E. Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia)

"I had a dream, and it landed right here in my hand"
--Robert R. Toth, Artist, The Realm of Art Gallery.

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.
--Phantom F. Harlock

Sometimes dreams alter the course of an entire life.
--Judith Duerk

Think impossible and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned, and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words It's possible, and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest.
--Greg Anderson

Nonviolence is about speaking the whole complicated truth, the truth of our rage, the truth of our longing, the truth of our tears and our laughter, the truth of our smallest fears and our grandest dreams
--Pam McAllister

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
--Ramona L. Anderson

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
--William J. Clinton - Bill Clinton

To 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 Davis

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. But while we wait, we need to prepare symbolically a place for our hopes and dreams.
--Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance:
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Never laugh at anyone's dreams.
People who don't have dreams don't have much.
--Unknown

If your dreams turn to dust....vacuum.
--Unknown

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
--Greg Anderson US basketball player

We grow great by dreams ... Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
--Woodrow Wilson

Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be here, but you will have ceased to live.
--Lady Nancy Astor

If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.
--Jim Rohn

Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.
--Kahill Gibran

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
--Belva Davis

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."
--Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams...
--Arthur O'Shaughnessy

"There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!"
--Linda Staten

"Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today."
--James Dean

"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

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
--Jack London, American Author

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
--Antoine De Saint-Exupery, French Author, Aviator

Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.
--Karen Ravn

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
--Goethe, German Poet, Novelist

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
--Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
--George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright and Critic

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
--Joseph Epstein

If you can dream it, you can do it.
--Walt Disney

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.
Go forward and make your dreams come true.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come
--Hamlet

Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to
'dream dreams and see visions . . . .'Rollo May (1909-1994)
--US psychoanalyst

It is amazing that our souls--our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world--are contained within the temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition.
--Marion Woodman from the essay Soul Moments,
Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
--Robert H. Goddard Franklin Seasons Planner, September 2, 1993

Let your dream devour your life not your life devour your dream.
--Unknown

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
--Zadok Rabinwitz

"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."
--Mark Twain, American Author, Humorist

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
--Pamela Vaull Starr

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
--William Dement

Dreams are the touchstone of our character.
--Henry David Thoreau

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
--Paul Gauguin

The dream follows the interpretation.
--The Talmud

A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that has not been opened.
--The Talmud

Those who lose dreaming are lost.
--Australian Aboriginal Proverb

Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the action stems the dream again;
and this inter-dependence produces the highest form of living.
--Anias Nin (1903-1977)

In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow.
--Louise Driscoll

Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust.
--Dragonheart

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 Barca Life is a Dream

Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
--Henry David Thoreau

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.
--Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) US writer

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
--Orison Swett Marden

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?
--Ashleigh Brilliant

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.
--Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) US writer

Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend's hand~ and hold on forever
--Traci Brown

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -- is this: dream a great dream.
--John A. Appleman

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
--Unknown

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
--Peter McWilliams Author

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
--Buddha

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
--William James

If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
--Henry David Thoreau

Yes, everybody's dying to be someone else, but I'll live my life if it kills me.
--e.e. cummings

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
--Carl Jung

A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask. --Fox Mulder

People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. People want the dream -- what they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive.
--Xander

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.
--Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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