Quotes on Dreams! 200+ Inspirational Quotes on Dreams & Goals

Quotes On Dreams

  • “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” —Elvis Presley
  • “If you can dream it, you can do it.” —Walt Disney
  • “Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.” —Donatella Versace
  • “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” —Vincent van Gogh
  • “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” —Pablo Picasso
  • “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.” —Martin Luther King Jr
  • “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” —Albert Einstein
  • “You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” —Muhammad Ali
  • “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” —Erma Bombeck
  • “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” —Edgar Allen Poe
  • “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” —Michael Phelps
  • “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” —Williams Shakespeare
  • “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” —William Arthur Ward
  • “Sometimes a dream almost whispers, it never shouts. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear.” —Steven Spielberg
  • “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.” —John Lennon
  • “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” —Martin Luther King Jr
  • “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

Best Quotes about Dreams

  • “Yesterday’s dreams are often tomorrow’s realities.” —Bruce Lee
  • “Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.” —Patch Adams
  • “If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” —Jim Carrey
  • “Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.” —Victor Hugo
  • “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” —J.K. Rowling
  • “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” —John Barrymore
  • “Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.” —Robin Sharma
  • “If you’ve never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.” —Adam Duritz
  • “I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” —Steven Spielberg
  • “Make the action to move closer to your dream the first action you take each day.” —Leo Babauta
  • “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” —Buddha
  • “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” —Anatole France
  • “Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.” —Earl Nightingale
  • “Freedom is the word that the human dream feeds on, that no one can explain nor fail to understand.” —Cecília Meireles
  • “Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There’s no other definition of it.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” —Amy Tan
  • “Dream is not that you see in the sleep; dream is that does not allow you to sleep.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • “You’re alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, and dream anything.” —Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book)
  • “Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.” —Gaston Bachelard
  • “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.” —Gary Keller (The ONE Thing)
  • “I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” —John Lennon
  • “We’re told that the American dream will bring you happiness, and it will not. I think a lot of us learn as we get older that happiness is internal. Happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop.” —Naval Ravikant

Funny Quotes about Dreams

  • “Television is simply automated daydreaming.” —Lee Loevinger
  • “Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.” —David Bower
  • “I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.” —Steven Wright
  • “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “If you even dream of beating me, you’d better wake up and apologize.” —Muhammad Ali
  • “Ah, nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • “That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” —George Carlin
  • “He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.” —Douglas Adams
  • “Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.” —H. L. Mencken
  • “Dreams can change, if we all stuck with our first dreams there would be a lot of cowboys and princesses running around.” —Stephen Colbert
  • “I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about morality, sustainability and philosophy instead of the Kardashians.” —Keanu Reeves
  • “Delaying pursuing your dreams is like saving up sex for old age — you might get what you want eventually, but it won’t be as much fun.” —Shane Parrish

Inspiring Quotes on Dreams

  • “Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” —Nelson Mandela
  • ”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” —Richard Branson
  • “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer
  • “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” —Henri Amiel
  • “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” —Soren Kierkegaard
  • “Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.” —Wim Wenders
  • “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis
  • “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” —Bertrand Russell
  • “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” —Langston Hughes
  • “I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” —William Butler Yeats
  • “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” —David Allen
  • “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 Turner
  • “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” —Epicurus
  • “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’“ —Tom Preston-Werner
  • “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
  • “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
  • “Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.” —H.F. Hedge
  • “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” —Anais Nin
  • “If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” —Albert Ellis
  • “Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.” —Calvin Coolidge
  • “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” —T.E. Lawrence
  • “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” —T.E. Lawrence
  • “That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.” —Paracelsus
  • “Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.” —Lao Tzu

Motivational Quotes on Dreams

  • “At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.” —Christopher Reeve
  • “It’s important to have specific dreams. Dream big. Dream without fear.” —Randy Pausch
  • “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” —James A. Froude
  • “The further the reward from the effort, the thinner the competition. Patience is the gatekeeper.” —Johnny Uzan
  • “Make your dream so clear that it’s the only thing you think about all day long.” —Maxime Lagacé
  • “Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” —William James
  • “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —Les Brown (wrongly attritubed to C.S. Lewis)
  • “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem
  • “Our dreams prove that to imagine – to dream about things that have not happened – is among mankind’s deepest needs.” —Milan Kundera
  • “Once you’ve truly controlled your own fate, for better or for worse, you’ll never let anyone else tell you what to do.” —Naval Ravikant
  • “You have a certain amount of time to be alive – to pursue your hopes, dreams, and passions. Make it count.” —Life Math Money
  • “The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.” —Haruki Murakami
  • “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” —Calvin and Hobbes
  • “At school the word ‘daydreamer’ is an insult. Yet everything we are surrounded by was first a dream in someone’s head. We live in the dreamer’s world. Live the dream.” —Thibaut
  • “God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, he gave them to you. He will order your steps and take you where you need to be.” —Joel Osteen
  • “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps
  • “Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky’s the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let’s dance.” —Tom Hiddleston

Inspirational Quotes on Dream and Goals

  • “It may be that those who do most, dream most.” —Stephen Butler Leacock
  • “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” —Marsha Norman
  • “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” —Gail Godwin
  • “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” —Henri Amiel
  • “When you stop having dreams and ideals — well, you might as well stop altogether.” —Marian Anderson
  • “Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.” —Wim Wenders
  • “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis
  • “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “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 Turner
  • “Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.” —Unknown Author
  • “Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.” —H.F. Hedge
  • “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, they take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.” —Harvey Mackay
  • “That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.” —Paracelsus
  • “Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.” —Lao Tzu

Short Inspirational Quotes on Dream

  • “Dreams come true.” —Unknown
  • “Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain
  • “I dwell in possibility.” —Emily Dickinson
  • “Hope is a waking dream.” —Aristotle
  • “Dreams are necessary to life.” —Anais Nin
  • “Let your dreams be your wings.” —Unknown
  • “In dreams begins responsibility.” —W. B. Yeats
  • “Swim out of your little pond.” —Rumi
  • “Think, believe, dream, and dare.” —Walt Disney
  • “Never leave your dreams unfulfilled.” —James Clear
  • “Nothing happens unless first we dream.” —Carl Sandburg
  • “Never give up on your dreams.” —Barack Obama
  • “Dream big. Start small. Act now.” —Robin Sharma
  • “I don’t chase dreams, I hunt goals.” —Unknown
  • “In dreams I have achieved everything.” —Fernando Pessoa
  • “Don’t tell people your dreams, show them.” —Unknown
  • “Think of many things; do one.” —Portuguese proverb
  • “Forsake all inhibitions, pursue thy dreams.” —Walt Whitman
  • “Follow your dreams, they know the way.” —Kobe Yamada
  • “You get one life. Make it count.” —Shane Parrish
  • “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” —John C. Maxwell
  • “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” —Edgar Cayce
  • “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela
  • “Do what they think you can’t do.” —Duke Fergerson
  • “Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” —Akira Kurosawa
  • “The journey is essential to the dream.” —Francis of Assisi
  • “Don’t call it a dream, call it a plan.” —Unknown
  • “If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” —Steve Jobs
  • “Any dream is possible, if you have courage.” —Walt Disney
  • “Honor your dreams and they will be honored.” —Gabby Bernstein
  • “Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “The shell must break before the bird can fly.” —Alfred Tennyson
  • “For the goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” —Unknown
  • “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” —Douglas Ivester
  • “Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” —Napoleon Hill
  • “Build a dream and the dream will build you.” —Robert H. Schuller
  • “Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?” —Jon Bon Jovi
  • “It may be that those who do most, dream most.” —Stephen Butler Leacock
  • “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb
  • “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” —James Dean
  • “I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.” —Haruki Murakami
  • “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
  • “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” —Lao Tzu
  • “It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.” —Edgar Allan Poe
  • “The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” —Farrah Gray
  • “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” —Gail Godwin

Quotes on Dreams and Reality

  • “Face reality or escape with a dream.” —Maxime Lagacé
  • “Imagination must be used to create reality, not to escape.” —Colin wilson
  • “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” —Colin Powell
  • “Let your dreams become your reality, set your goals, take action, and live your dream.” —Catherine Pulsifer
  • “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” —John Lennon
  • “Hundreds of people dream every day and none of them come true, but remember, one day you live a reality.”
  • “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” —Jonas Salk
  • “Money is certainly one of the ways we can turn the dreams we have into the reality we live.” —Tony Robbins
  • “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.” —Belva Davis
  • “Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.” —Napoleon Hill
  • “When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.” —Dom Helder Camara
  • “Life is about positive and negative choices that you have to make. A dream is just a dream but it’s up to you to make it a reality.” —Mr. Desire
  • “There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” —Douglas H. Everett
  • “Humanity will never forget their dreamlike sons and will never drag their ideals to death because their dreams and ideals live in all of humanity and the heart of humanity seeks to keep them alive as a reality.” —James Family

Quotes On Dreams And Goals

  • “Dream it, then make it happen.” —Anonymus
  • “Dream big. Start small. But most of all start.” —Simon Sinek
  • “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” —Richard Branson
  • “You’ve got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.” —Elvis Presley
  • “No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” —Anonymus
  • “The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” —Tom Bradley
  • “ Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.” —Dan Peña
  • “If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?.” —Oscar Hammerstein
  • “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.” —Anonymus
  • “The only dreams that come true are the ones you chase, if you do nothing, you get nothing.” —Joseph Atser
  • “No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.” —Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale
  • “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and the willingness to work hard for them.” —Michelle Obama
  • “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true. You will have to work for it, however.” —Richard Bach
  • “20 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.” —Mark Twain

Believe In Your Dreams Quotes

  • “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” —Suzy Kassem
  • “It’s never too late to focus on your dreams.” —Anonymus
  • “No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” —Lupita Nyong’o
  • “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.” —Walt Disney
  • “Whatever the mind…can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill
  • “The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
  • “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” —John Updike
  • “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “Don’t let others hijack your dreams. Be captain of your own ship and master of your own destiny.” —Joanne Madeline Moore
  • “Nothing is going to stop you from fulfilling your dreams. And you deserve every last one of success I know you will have.” —Michelle Obama
  • “Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.” —Kevin Ngo
  • “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” —Harriet Tubman
  • “People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.” —Neil Gaiman

Motivational Quotes To Help You Achieve Your Dreams

  • “The only thing worse than starting something and failing…is not starting something.” —Seth Godin
  • “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett
  • “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” —Richard Branson
  • “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
  • “Dare to dream, but even more importantly, dare to put action behinds your dreams.” —Josh Hinds
  • “If you don’t build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs.” —Tony Gaskin
  • “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” —Les Brown
  • “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” —Stephen King
  • “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn
  • “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” —Mae Jemison
  • “Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.” —Richard Wilkins
  • “The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” —Ben Stein
  • “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps
  • “Despite what we’ve been taught, we don’t have to be rich, famous or distinguished to make our dreams come true.” —Sharon Cook and Graciela Sholander
  • “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.” —Harriet Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “Step away from the couch sitters who are awaiting the single perfect day to begin living their dream. You can choose to live your dream every day if you just take the first step.” —T. D. Jakes
  • “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” —George Herbert
  • “Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, and a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order to prepare to try again.” —W. Clement Stone
  • “It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” —Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

Dream Quotes and Sayings

  • “The best love affairs are those we never had.” —Norman Lindsay
  • “The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.” —Jorge Luis Borges
  • “If you aren’t living your dreams then you’re living your fears.” —Daymond John
  • “What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?” —Nicholas Sparks
  • “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” —Marian Wright Edelman
  • “Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “People will laugh at your dreams then hate you when you make them come true.” —Lance Allred
  • “The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “All that appears is devoid of independent existence, just like a magical apparition or a dream.” —Padmasambhava
  • “Asking your children to carry the burden of your dreams is the worst form of child labour.” —Thibaut
  • “A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask.” —Fox Mulder (X Files)
  • “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” —Virginia Woolf
  • “You only dream as big as you think and you only think as big as what you see.” —Tom Bilyeu
  • “Dreaming is hoping. Hoping is desiring. Desiring is suffering. Suffering is living. But your dream is worth suffering for.” —Maxime Lagacé
  • “There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we, are the imagination of ourselves.” —Bill Hicks
  • “When your deepest thoughts are broken, keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreaming it’s time to die.” —Shannon Hoon
  • “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” —Napoleon Hill
  • “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
  • “If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” —Marcel Proust