Dreams Quotes

Why does no one confess his sins Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002

Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Allen

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkne

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Schille

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

L. J. Suenens

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Sue Atchley Ebaugh

It is amazing that our souls - - Our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world - - Are contained within these temporal bodies.

Marion Woodman

Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.

Robert J. Kibbee

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.

Henry Vaughn

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

Henry David Thoreau

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.

Marlin Finch Lupus

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

Steven Patrick Callahan

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.

Logan Pearsall Smith

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

Anna M. Uhlich

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

Barry Lopez

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Shelley

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

Langston Hughes

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Kahlil Gibran

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Stephane Mallarme

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau

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 dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.

Tupac Amaru Shaku

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Og Mandino

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.

Henry Havelock Ellis

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.

Haniel Long

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 responsibility to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

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, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996