
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.Swami Vivekananda
These 77 quotes on dreams come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.Swami Vivekananda

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.Rabindranath Tagore

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Gautama Buddha

Sick on my journey — my dreams wander over withered fields.Matsuo Bashō

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

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.John Lennon

Life is a dream.Pedro Calderón de la Barca

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?Langston Hughes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.Henry David Thoreau

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

Hope is a waking dream.Aristotle

Don't give up, that's what life is: to continue the journey, to follow your dreams, to unknot time, to move the rubble and uncover the sky.Mario Benedetti

Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am a man dreaming I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I am a man.Zhuangzi

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

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them.Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.Yoko Ono
Nothing happens unless first we dream.Carl Sandburg
A goal is a dream with a deadline.Napoleon Hill
Do more than dream: work.William Arthur Ward
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Carl Jung
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.Friedrich von Schiller
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.Anatole France
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
All the great performers I have worked with are fuelled by a personal dream.John Eliot
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.Man Ray
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.W. Clement Stone
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.John Quincy Adams
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
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.Napoleon Hill
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.Harry Kemp
You can't create in a vacuum. Life gives you the material and dreams can propel new beginnings.Byron Pulsifer
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.Mary Morrissey
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.Oprah Winfrey
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.Carl Jung
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success…Henry David Thoreau
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.Orison Marden
Experience can only be gained by doing not by thinking or dreaming.Byron Pulsifer
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…Denis Waitley
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
The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer...Moncure Conway
Weve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.Walt Disney
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…Harriet Tubman
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.Tim Menchen
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical.Expect more than others think is…Cadet Maxim
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.Zadok Rabinowitz
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.Edgar Allan Poe
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.John Updike
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Carl Jung
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.Greta Thunberg
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.Estee Lauder
Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.Dhirubhai Ambani
Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it, you can do it.Dhirubhai Ambani
Enjoy the game and chase your dreams. Dreams do come true.Sachin Tendulkar
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.Lionel Messi
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.Michael Phelps
Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.Dwayne Johnson
I sell dreams and peddle love to millions of people.Shah Rukh Khan
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.Kalpana Chawla

In planning to acquire your share of the riches, let no one influence you to scorn the dreamer.Napoleon Hill

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.Rumi

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.Marcus Aurelius

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

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare

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

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Carl Jung

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.Victor Hugo