Dreams / Aspiring Quotes

1. What one can dream, one can achieve. - Jules Verne

2. A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness. - Zadok Rabinowitz

3. If you can dream it, you can do it! - Walt Disney

4. We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaugnessy

5. Dreams come true when you pay the price. - Nido R. Qubein

6. I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

7. 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

8. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau

9. Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. - Belva Davis

10. 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. - T. E. Lawrence

11. Far away in there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott

12. When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. – Cicero

13. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

14. Nothing happens unless first a dream. - Carl Sandburg

15. You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. - Michael Phelps

16. We are lured by our dreams to face our challenges. By doing so we grow and become more of what we are meant to be. It is important to remember, you and your dream are bigger than your fears. - Unknown

17. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

18. You see things and say 'Why?'; but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw

19. When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. - Joseph Campbell

20. So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable and then when we summon the will (to action), they soon become inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

21. 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

22. Dreaming is critical. You can’t do it if you can’t imagine it. - George Lucas

23. Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

24. The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. - Harry Kemp

25. Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly. - Oprah Winfrey

26. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work at it, however. - Richard Bach

27. When you put a date on your dream, it becomes a goal. When you aim for the goal, it becomes a challenge. When you beat the challenge, the reward is success. To have success... you need a dream... - Raja Akhtar

28. We need to give ourselves permission to act our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams - even if it takes a lifetime. - Vijali Hamilton

29. I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream. - John Allen Appleman

30. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. - Unknown

31. To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Gibran

32. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

33. Within your heart keep one still secret spot where dreams may grow. - Louise Driscoll

34. When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. - Leo Burnett

35. Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true. - Fred Van Amburgh

36. If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? - Oscar Hammerstein

37. I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close. - Henry J. Kaiser

38. Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. - Neil Kendall

39. 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

40. We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. - Woodrow T. Wilson

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

42. Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? - Charles L. Allen

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

44. Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure. - Unknown

45. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. - James Dean

46. You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path. - Les Brown

47. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in the common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

48. You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. - Billy Wilder

49. Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale

50. A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up. - Charlie Hedges

51. You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. - Billy Wilder

52. Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about. - Unknown

53. If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream. - Les Brown

54. Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so. - Marcia Wieder

55. Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've got to get up & work at making your dreams come true. - P. Khing

56. 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

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

58. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. - Andrew Carnegie

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

60. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. - William A. Ward

61. A dream written down with a DATE becomes a goal.
A goal broken down into STEPS becomes a plan.
A plan backed by ACTION makes your dreams come true.
- Greg Reid

62. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung

63. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. - Gail Devers

64. It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible. - Thomas Robert Gaines

65. Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

66. Have a dream so BIG that you cannot achieve it until you grow into the person who can. - Unknown

67. Anything you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must come to reality. - Paul Meyer

68. A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. - Harvey MacKay

69. The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. - Robert H. Schuller

70. To dream the impossible dream
      To fight the unbeatable foe
      To bear with unbearable sorrow
      To run where the brave dare not go     
      To right the unrightable wrong
      To love pure and chaste from afar
      To try when your arms are too weary
      To reach the unreachable star
      This is my quest
      To follow that star
      No matter how hopeless
      No matter how far
      To fight for the right
      Without question or pause
      To be willing to march into Hell
      For a heavenly cause
      And I know if I'll only be true
      To this glorious quest
      That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
      When I'm laid to my rest
      And the world will be better for this
      That one man, scorned and covered with scars
      Still strove with his last ounce of courage
      To reach the unreachable star
             - from "Man of La Mancha", music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion

80. Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying. - Robert H. Schuller

81. Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action. - David J. Schwartz

82. You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. - Barbara Sher

83. Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. - Unknown

84. Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are. - Les Brown

85. Your dream was given to you. If someone else can't see it for you, that's fine, it was given to you and not them. It's your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it! - Les Brown

86. Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream. - Chris Guillebeau

87. Often times in order to capture your dreams, it will require you to chase your fears. - Neil Patel

88. Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands. - Earl Nightingale

89. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. - William James

90. Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action. - David J. Schwartz

91. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. - William James

92. 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

93. When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. - Carol Burnett

94. If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there. - Joyce Chapman

95. 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

96. Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy. - Walt Disney

97. Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live. - Lady Nancy Astor

98. 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

99. For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. - Saint Basil

100. You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. - Denis Waitley

101. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Earl Nightingale

102. Do not be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. - Belva Davis

103. All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. - Orison Swett Marden

104. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France