68+ Powerful Quotes on Dreams

T. E. Lawrence Quote: 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 dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it is vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

All our dreams can come true… if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe

Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

Dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

John Lennon

Dreams Quote (Paulo Coelho): It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Paulo Coelho

Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

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

Zadok Rabinwitz

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

Francis Ford Coppola

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.

Paulo Coelho

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Commitment unlocks the door of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the “right stuff” to turn our dreams into reality.

James Womack

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hour.

Henry David Thoreau

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Swami Vivekananda

Dreams Quote (Oscar Wilde): We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If we want to realize our dreams, we have to stay awake.

H. H. Swami Tejomayananda

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

Dreams Quote (Friedrich Schiller): Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

Khalil Gibran

The highest form of contentment and happiness only appears to those who fight, struggle and bleed for their lifelong dreams. Nothing else can even come close to the heights of dreams achieved.

Daniel Seker

The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.

Frank Baron

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

Steven Spielberg

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.

Richard Bach

Dreams Quote (Benjamin Disraeli): Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Benjamin Disraeli

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Oscar Wilde

We should show life neither as it is or as it it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Leo Tolstoy

Our dreams are who we are.

Barbara Sher

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 E. Turner

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Brian Williams

Dreams Quote (Gustave Flaubert): I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Wayne Dyer

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true

Napoleon Hill

Don’t let your dreams be dreams.

Jack Johnson

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

Carl Jung

You can dream, so dream out loud.

U2

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

Dreams Quote (Jonathan Winters): If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

Jonathan Winters

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph

All men of action are dreamers.

James Huneker

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

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 Everett

Zhuangzi Quote: Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry...

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Zhuangzi

I have heard it said that the first ingredient to success – the earlist spark in the dreaming youth – is this: dream a great dream.

John Alan Appleman

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles De Gaulle

Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.

Unknown Author

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

Langston Hughes

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. 

Gandhi

Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.

William Longgood

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall 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.

James Allen

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Jack Kerouac



We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Louisa May Alcott

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

Paul Lavery

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.

Mark Twain

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

David Copperfield

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.

Astrid Alauda

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