Dreams Quotes

I have learned this at least by my experiment: 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

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they? ve got a second. Give your dreams all you? ve got and you? ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!

William James

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

Anna M. Uhlich

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

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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)

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugene Ionesco

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

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

Umberto Eco

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)

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

Henry David Thoreau

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002

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.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

J. M. Powe

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Roald Dahl

Dreams take us to levels we would otherwise be afraid to strive for.

Bill Beham

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

Haniel Long

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Author Unknown

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Schille

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature".

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

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

William Shakespeare

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

Edward Kennedy

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

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

Victor Hugo

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

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

I have spread my dreams under your feet.

William Butler Yeats

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

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Shelley

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

Dr. Jonas Salk

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

John Dryden