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

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill

Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

?Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

- Wim Wenders

When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more, And be happy.

- Hafiz of Persia

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

- John Barrymore

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

- Louisa May Alcott

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

- Henry David Thoreau

The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

- Jonas Salk

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

- Miguel de Cervantes

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

- Thomas Jefferson



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



The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

- Heywood Broun



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



The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer...

- Moncure Conway



The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

- Elizabeth Gilbert



Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

- Henry David Thoreau



In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

- High Eagle



He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

- Douglas Adams



When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

- Dom Helder Camara



Nothing happens unless first we dream.

- Carl Sandburg



The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

- Will Durant



Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

- Jean-Paul Sartre



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

- Gloria Steinem



People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

- Norman Cousins



When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

- Napoleon Hill



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

- Zadok Rabinowitz



If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

The Trumpet of Conscience

- Martin Luther King, Jr.



No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

- Marian Wright Edelman



Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

- Kalidasa



Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

- Virginia Woolf



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



Dreams are necessary to life.

- Anais Nin



What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

- Samuel Gompers



I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.



Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.

- John Lennon



Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"

paraphrase of Shaw, often attributed to Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, who used it in a speech which his brother, Edward F. (Teddy) Kennedy quoted at RFK's funeral.

- George Bernard Shaw



If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

- Mary Beth Danielson



Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Nothing happens unless first a dream.

- Carl Sandburg