dream quotes

Anais Nin: 

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin: 

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Anais Nin: 

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anatole France: 

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Carl Jung: 

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

Carl Sandburg: 

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg: 

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Dom Helder Camara: 

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Edward Kennedy: 

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Elizabeth Gilbert: 

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

George Bernard Shaw: 

Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"
frequently attributed to Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, who used it in a speech which his brother, Edward F. (Teddy) Kennedy quoted at RFK's funeral.


George Bernard Shaw: 

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

Gloria Steinem: 

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Goethe: 

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

H. L. Mencken: 

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Henry David Thoreau: 

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau: 

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

High Eagle: 

In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

Hobbes (of Calvin and ...): 

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.

James A. Froude: 

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Jean-Paul Sartre: 

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Jesse Jackson: 

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

John Lennon: 

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.

John Lennon: 

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.

Kahlil Gibran: 

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Kalidasa: 

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the 
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes 
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Marcel Proust: 

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Margaret Mead: 

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.

Marian Wright Edelman: 

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Mark Twain: 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: 

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

Martin Luther King, jr.: 

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
The Trumpet of Conscience


Mary Beth Danielson: 

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

Norman Lindsay: 

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Samuel Gompers: 

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

Victor Hugo: 

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Virginia Woolf: 

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

Will Durant: 

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Zadok Rabinowitz: 

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