All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.--Brian Tracy

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.--William Faulkner

Ask yourself, "How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?" I suggest you answer, "As long as it takes.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine May 27, 2003)

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.--Joyce Brothers

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

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books--they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.--Esther Meynell 

Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying.--Robert H. Schuller

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.--James Womack

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

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.--Anonymous

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

The dream is not the destination but the journey.--Diane Sawyer

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.--Toni Cade Bambara

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.--Joseph Campbell

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

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.--Anais Nin

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

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.--Henry David Thoreau

Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.--Josie Bisset

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.--Sir James M. Barrie

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

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.--Roger Von Oech

Empower your dreams with deadlines.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)

Enough! It's time to grow up. If we want to play adult games--living our Dream--we must play by adult rules. One of the primary adult rules: We are individually responsible for our own lives.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)

The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream.--Marilyn Harris

Far away 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

First, when everybody tells you that you are being idealistic or impractical, consider the possibility that everybody could be wrong about what is right for you. Look inside yourself the way nobody else can. Will the pursuit of your dream hurt anybody? Do you stand at least a fair chance of success? If you fail, will you be seriously damaged or merely embarrassed? If you succeed, will it change your life for the better? When you can persuade yourself that your dream is worthwhile and achievable--then you say thank you to the doubters and take the plunge … How much better to know that we have dared to live our dreams than to live our lives in a lethargy of regret.--Gilbert E. Kaplan

Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.--Anonymous

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.--Lois Wyse (Far From Innocence)

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.--Leonard da Vinci

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.--Albert Einstein

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die
Life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams go
Life is a barren field frozen in snow.--Langston Hughes

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.--L.J. Suenens

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
That myth is more potent than history
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -
That hope always triumphs over experience -
That laughter is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is
stronger than death.--Robert Fulghum

I dream, therefore I become.--Cheryl Grossman

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth--if this; dream a great dream.--John A. Appleman

I have learned, 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

I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.--David Copperfield

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing--where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.--Phillips Brooks

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.--Vincent van Gogh

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.--Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In order to make your dreams come true, you must awaken and take charge.--Natasha Newsome

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.--Henry David Thoreau

It is difficult to say what is impossible for the dream of yesterday is the reality of tomorrow.--Dr. Robert H. Goddard

It may be those who do most, dream most.--Stephen Leacock

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.--Eric Hoffer

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.--Emily Bronte

Life is never easy for those who dream.--Robert James Waller ("Border Music")

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.--Charles Lindbergh

Look, there are no shortcuts in golf, and there are no shortcuts in life. You have to work for it. Dream big and keep your dreams for yourself. Because the dreams that you have are those things that separate you from others. If you give up your dream, you give up hope. And without hope, you are nothing.--Tiger Woods

Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood.--D.B. Hudson

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.--Elie Wiesel

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.--Zadoc Rabinowitz

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.--Arnold Schwarzenegger

The more you can dream, the more you can do.--Michael Korda

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.--Kahlil Gibran

Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if 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

...my dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed--my dearest pleasure when free.--Mary Shelley

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.--Thomas Jefferson

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.--Jesse Jackson

No vision and you perish;
No Ideal, and you're lost;
Your heart must ever cherish
Some faith at any cost.
Some hope, some dream to cling to,
Some rainbow in the sky,
Some melody to sing to,
Some service that is high.--Harriet Du Autermont

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.--Ralph Charell

Nothing happens unless first a dream.--Carl Sandburg

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.--Tom Clancy

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.--Terry Pratchett (Wyrd Sisters, 1988)

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.--James Broughton

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

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.--Dorothy Gilman (Caravan)

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.--Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.--James Michener

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.--Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.--Abraham Lincoln

Take your time, think a lot,
Think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not.--Cat Stevens

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

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream--whatever that dream might be.--Pearl S. Buck

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.--Erma Bombeck

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?--Robert F. Kennedy

There is no straight line to a dream.--Jack Welch (aka Neutron Jack)

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.--Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

To dream of the person you'd like to be, is a waste to the person you are.--Author unknown

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.--Mark Twain

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.--Melvin Powers

The way I see it, there are two kinds of dreams.
One is a dream that's always going to be just that.....
A dream.
A vision that you can never really hold in your hand.
Then there's a dream that's more than a dream its like....
A map.
A map that you live by and follow for the rest of your days
Knowing that someday your going to stand on top of that
Mountain holding everything you thought of
Right
There
In
Your
Hand!--Robert Cooper

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.--Susan Taylor

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 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 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.--Goethe

When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.--Patch Adams (Gesundheit!)

When you cease to dream you cease to live.--Malcolm S. Forbes

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.--Gloria Steinem

The world needs people like you to dream of something great and then pursue it with all your heart.--Chris Widener 

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.--H. Robert Schuller

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.--Robert H. Schuller

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?--Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific)

You have to leave room in life to dream.--Buffy Sainte-Marie

You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, well, the suburbs of anywhere. You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible. Thanks very much.--Russell Crowe

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.—James M. Barrie

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