Dream Quotes to Keep Your Dreams Alive

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
-- Denis Waitley

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
-- Napoleon Hill

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
-- Zadok Rabinwitz

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

 

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
-- Joseph Epstein

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

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!
-- Og Mandino

Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today.
-- James Dean

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
-- Author Unknown

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
-- Astrid Alauda

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

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

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
-- Vincent van Gogh

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.
-- Jim Valvano

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
-- Jack London

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
-- Flavia Weedn

If the dream is big enough the facts don't matter.
-- Dexter Yager

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
-- Richard M. DeVos

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
-- Joyce Chapman

Life is never easy for those who dream.
-- Robert James Waller

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.
-- Karen Ravn

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.
-- Author Unknown

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

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
-- E. Y. Harburg

There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own... for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!
-- Linda Staten

Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.
-- James Allen

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

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.-- Bernard Edmonds

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams...
-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
-- Richard Bach

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-- C.S. Lewis

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
-- Diana Ross

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
-- Abdul Kalam
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
-- Billy Wilder

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
-- George Bernard Shaw

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows/ and has always known/ that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.
-- Anthony Robbins