Dreams Quotes

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

Euripides

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

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

Author Unknown

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

Frank W. Woolworth

Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Allen

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

Euripides

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

Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.

Robert J. Kibbee

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

Henry David Thoreau

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkne

Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeates

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am years gone from my family and miles away... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.

Jerrold Mundis

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

Johann von Goethe

To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Sir Walter Scott

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

Tupac Amaru Shaku

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)

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.

Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day

Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

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

John Dryden

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

I have spread my dreams under your feet.

William Butler Yeats

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

Victor Hugo

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Erich Fromm

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Stephane Mallarme

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Max Beerbohm

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

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.

Louise Driscoll

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

Walt Disney

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

Paul Valery