Life And Dreams Quotes:

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

topic: Life, Inspiring, Dream, Life And Dreams, Sense Of Wonder

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

- Anatole France

source: Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiration And Motivation

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Dreams Can Come True, Hopes And Dreams

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Life, Dream, Sleep, Masque, Day And Night

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Pursue Your Dreams, Inspirational Adventure

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

topic: Life, Beautiful, Dream, Soul Life, Source Of Life

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

- Langston Hughes

source: "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart, Inspirational Dream, Columnists

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

- Ben Stein

source: Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Make The Right Decision, First Steps

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Social Entrepreneurship, Inspiration To Write

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Love, Life, Dream, Hopes And Dreams, Life And Dreams

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...

- Woodrow Wilson

source: "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

topic: Dream, Bad Day, Sunshine, Spring Day, Keep Dreaming

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

- Colin Powell

topic: Dream, Determination, Military, Pursue Your Dreams, Dreamy

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

- Carl Sandburg

source: Carl Sandburg, Arnie Bernstein (2000). “The Movies are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928”, p.7, Lake Claremont Press

topic: Dream, Inspiration, Imagination, Life And Dreams, Life Dream

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

topic: Life, Dream, Sleep, Life And Dreams, Solemn

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

- Alton Brown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Solo Travel, Soul Life

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

topic: Dream, Self Confidence, Creative, Life And Dreams, Unfamiliar

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Death, Dream, Sleep, Someone Dying, Dealing With Death

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

- Havelock Ellis

topic: Inspiring, Dream, Real, Life And Dreams, Lucid Dreaming

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Life, Dream, Sleep, Life And Dreams, Lucid Dreaming

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.

- Laozi

topic: Weed, Dream, Opportunity For Success, Life And Dreams, Nurturing

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

- Walt Disney

topic: Appreciation, Communication, Mean, Live For Yourself, Explicit

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

- Benjamin E. Mays

topic: Lying, Goal, Mind, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Weight Loss

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Travel, Solo Travel, Soul Life

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Best Success, Innovative Ideas

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 sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Love, Dream, Spring, Man Of My Dreams, Dreams Can Come True

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Love, Stars, Teaching, Stars In The Sky, Mission And Vision

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

source: Emily Bronte, Annabella Bloom (2010). “Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.128, Adams Media

topic: Love, Life, Dream, Life And Dreams, Life Dream

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 Kennedy

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dream, Life And Dreams

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

- Les Brown

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Dream, Make People Feel Better, Fear None

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, New Friendship, Hopes And Dreams

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

- Les Brown

topic: Music, Dream, Teacher, Inspirational Dream, Lack Of Responsibility

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

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Dreamy, Hopes And Dreams

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

source: Christopher Reeve (1998). “Still Me”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Positive, Inspiring, Graduation, Impossible Dream, Impossible Becomes Possible

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Live Life To Its Fullest

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

- Emily Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.424, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Ever After, Life And Dreams, Life Dream

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

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

- William C. Dement

topic: Life, Dream, Clever, Dreamy, Every Night

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

- Leon Joseph Suenens

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Pay, Dreams Can Come True, Inspirational Dream

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Life And Dreams

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Impossible Dream, Inspirational Dream

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

- Farrah Gray

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from May 27, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Dream, Journey To Success, Inspirational Attitude

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- W. H. Murray

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Innovation Inspiration

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds