Dreams - Quotes & Sayings

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

John Updike

Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it.

Dawn Richard

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Rene Descartes

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

David Copperfield

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

Ralph Lauren

You have to keep going and pursue your dreams.

Joey King

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Bronte

I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

Magic Johnson

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Drew Barrymore

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

Eva Green

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Joel Osteen

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.

David Lynch

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

Nick Cannon

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

I feel like dreams are always a little tricky, you know? But if you just push through the struggles and the hard times, it'll be so worth it in the end because you will be able to get to your dreams.

Chloe Kim

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

Jim Woodring

If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.

McKayla Maroney

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

LL Cool J

Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

Kalpana Chawla

All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.

Colin Kaepernick

I'm sure that everyone who goes into fashion always dreams of having a perfume, since it completes the brand and exposes it in a different way.

Reem Acra

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

Denis Waitley

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

Julian Castro

In dreams begins responsibility.

William Butler Yeats

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Aeschylus

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Emile Durkheim

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

Simon Sinek

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

In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Armstrong Williams

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Edgar Cayce

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

Dave Matthews

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

Mary Shelley

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Max Beerbohm

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality - and love life along the way - than we think we do!

Rachele Brooke Smith

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Simone Weil

Just like in rugby, the pinnacle was playing for the All Blacks. That was always a massive thing. But you never speak it outwardly because it can sound stupid. But if you don't have massive dreams, you might as well stay in bed.

Sonny Bill Williams

Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.

Arijit Singh

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

Felix Bloch

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Emma Goldman

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Desmond Tutu

Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.

Scott Adams

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

Ross Perot

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

Karlie Kloss