100 Motivational & Interesting Quotes About Dreams That Will Fuel You Up To Chase The Ones You Have.

Dreams! How do you define dreams? Yeah, in the first instance, we think of dream as the series of events we witness when we fall asleep. However, dream is not always the one which we see only while sleeping; we also dream when awake. And these are the dreams which make a difference! They inspire us to look beyond the horizon and reach out for goals which otherwise seem impossible.

As a child we all have certain dreams, and while some just treat these as unrealistic goals, others weave their actions in accordance to that dream so that one day they convert it to reality. That is the power of a dream, and we all know when we are stirred by such a thing, we begin to be more zealous.

The only thing required to live a situation known as ‘dream come true’, is to believe in what we dream. There are people at whose doors some surreal dreams knocked, and they were crazy enough to believe in those, letting it in. Hence, they know how dreams have changed their lives, and how it can help us achieve what we desire. Read on and see what these people have to say about dreams.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

- Dr. Seuss

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

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

- The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

- Twilight, Stephenie Meyer

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

- Eleonora, Edgar Allan Poe

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.

- Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

- Vincent van Gogh

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

- John Lennon

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

- Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

- Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Arthur O'Shaughnessy

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

- Oprah Winfrey

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

- Henry Thomas Buckle

Hope is a waking dream.

- Aristotle

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

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

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.

- Anaïs Nin

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

- Henry David Thoreau

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

- George Carlin

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

- Walt Disney Company

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- Hamlet, William Shakespeare

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 Company

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

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.

- Walden, Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

- Henry David Thoreau

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

- Lyrics:1962 2001, Bob Dylan

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)

- Neil Gaiman

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

- Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

- Edgar Allan Poe

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

- Jean Genet

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

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

- Tom Hiddleston

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

- Erma Bombeck

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

- Helen Keller

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

- Henry David Thoreau

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

- Roman Payne

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

- Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach

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

- Gloria Steinem

Dreams are necessary to life.

- Anaïs Nin

What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?

- The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks

I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may not bless my waking eyes.

- Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters, Anne Brontë

I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.

- Amy Poehler

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

- I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams

- Wonder, R.J. Palacio

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

- Langston Hughes

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

- Hollow City, Ransom Riggs

N�o sou nada. Nunca serei nada. N�o posso querer ser nada. � parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.

- Fernando Pessoa

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

- Tupac Shakur

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.

- Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

- Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

- The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

- The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

- Michelangelo Buonarroti

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

- The Pilgrimage, Paulo Coelho

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

- The Wanderess, Roman Payne

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

- 12 Princess Stories, Walt Disney Company

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

- Anaïs Nin

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

- Ray Charles

In my dreams, I never have an age.

- Madeleine L'Engle

In dreams begin responsibilities.

- Responsibilities, W.B. Yeats

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

- Killosophy, Criss Jami

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

- Madonna

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

- Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders, Neil Gaiman

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

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

- North of Beautiful, Justina Chen

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

- Henry Ford

I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

- Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights, James Kavanaugh

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

- The Mark of Athena, Rick Riordan

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.

- The Fortune Teller, Marsha Norman

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?

- The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

- The Kiss of Deception, Mary E. Pearson

Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings.

- Hafez

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down d�j� vu.

- Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

- Ingmar Bergman

. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow.

- The Collected Poems, Langston Hughes

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

- Akira Kurosawa

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

- Toni Morrison

Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight

- Lana Del Rey

When we can't dream any longer we die.

- Emma Goldman

Don't ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child.

- Carrie Hope Fletcher

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

- The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

- Joseph Heller

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

- Dracula, Bram Stoker

It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.

- Christopher Poindexter

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

- The Wind Among the Reeds, W.B. Yeats

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

- Percepliquis, Michael J. Sullivan

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

- Memories, C.G. Jung

...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

- The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield

I had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.

- I Had a Dream About You, Amy Summers

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