Dreams Quotes

"The bigger the dream, the harder you are willing to work."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. As quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 53"

"Realizing a dream requires a level of focus that most people find uncomfortable."

"There’s great wisdom in transitional realms between wakefulness and sleep. Right before you fall asleep, what thoughts and ideas come to you? How do you feel when you wake from a dream? [...] Keeping a dream journal might be of use. Place a pen and paper next to the bed, and as soon as you wake up, begin writing immediately with as much detail as possible before doing anything else." The Creative Act: A Way of Being"

"Every great achievement was once considered impossible. Your dream is only impossible until it isn't."

"Your vision must be so clear that you can taste it."

"Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current of our dreams, floating from past to future as silently as one awakes to fresh morning or evening thoughts."

"The greatest achievements of men, were at first, nothing but dreams of the minds of men who knew that dreams are the seedlings of all achievements. A burning desire, to be and to do, is the starting point, from which the dreamer must take off The Science of Personal Achievement (Audio - Nightingale-Conant)."

"Every great company starts as a dream that most people think is a bad idea."

"The best way to predict the future is to build it. Your dreams are the blueprints for that building."

"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to, achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive." Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

"Stay hungry for your dreams. Never settle for what you already have."

"Commonly misquoted, converted to imperative mood, as "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler"."

"A dream without a plan is just a hallucination. In Silicon Valley, we prefer to call them prototypes."

"Move fast and be break-things optimistic. You need that optimism to keep the dream alive when things get hard."

"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all, heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built."

"The joy of having a dream is the struggle to reach it."

"My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it. My Life Has Been a Poem I Would Have Writ"

"If you are not dreaming big enough to be scared, you are probably not dreaming big enough to change the world."

"Ambition is a magnet. When you dream big, you attract the most talented people in the world to help you."

"The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know."

"Dream big. It doesn't cost any more to dream big than it does to dream small."

"The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou (ed.) Pearls of Thought (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881) p. 21"

"Success is what happens when your dream survives the collision with reality."

"You should be focused on the dream, not the process of building a company. The company is just a vehicle for the dream."

"The dream is the star you follow through the dark nights of hard work."

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. July 14, 1852"

"Our ancestors would look at our world today as a dream realized. We have the same responsibility to our descendants."

"It is very hard to do something great without being intensely focused. Focus is the bridge between a dream and reality."

"I dreamt of being a leading man when they said my accent was too thick and my body was too large."

"The life that I aspire to liveNo man proposeth me—No trade upon the streetWears its emblazonry. "The Black Knight", l. 11. The Dial (October 1842) p. 180"

"Building is the process of making a dream tangible. It is the hardest and most rewarding thing a human can do."