Favorite Quotes on Dreams

•  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• We need men who can dream of things that never were. – John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. – Henry David Thoreau
  

  Crayon portrait of Henry David Thoreau as a young man (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• A dream is a wish your heart makes. – Cinderella
• I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. – Steven Spielberg
• The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. – Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. – John Barrymore
• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. – Jack Kerouac
• All men of action are dreamers. – James Huneker
• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
• All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. – Elias Canetti
• Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. – Joy Page
• Dream in a pragmatic way. – Aldous Huxley
• 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

Deutsch: Sepiazeichnung Johann Wolfgang Goethe bach Georg Oswald May (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• Dreams are necessary to life. – Anais Nin
• Dreams are the touchstones of our character. – Henry David Thoreau
• 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 
• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. – Victor Hugo
• 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
• I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better. – Brian Schweitzer
• I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. – M. C. Escher
• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. – Madonna

Madonna (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. – Eugene Ionesco
• Feel. Dream. Live. And never concede. Never settle for anything less, as you move full speed ahead in the quest for a life full of light and color. – Anisha Shenai, Danvers High School, MA,  Salutatorian of the Class of 2010.
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau
• If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
  - Les Brown
• In dreams begins responsibility. – William Butler Yeats
• It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. – Erma Bombeck
• Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it. – George Lucas
• When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme. – Jiminy Cricket
• Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes
  

  Portrait of Walt Disney, January 1, 1954. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• It may be that those who do most, dream most. – Stephen Butler Leacock
• We are such stuff / As dreams are made on
  - William Shakespeare
• Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. – Steven Conrad
• The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
  - Swami Vivekanada

Swami Vivekananda at Chicago in 1893. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• In dreams begin responsibilities. – William Butler Yeats
• I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
  Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
  - William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939), Irish poet and dramatist (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream,
  Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Without a dream you’ll not get anywhere. – Kofi Annan
• The center of every man’s existence is a dream. – G.K. Chesterton
• Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. – Friedrich von Schiller
• They say dreams are the windows of the soul–take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts. – Henry Bromel
• Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike
• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them. – Man Ray

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 P.S.: This morning, I noted with pleasure that my blog has been viewed by over 3,000 visitors and viewers worldwide (from 82 countries so far), since the start on Thanksgiving Day 2012 (i.e. Nov 25, 2012), just about two months ago. My sincere thanks to all readers, for the encouragement by their visit to my blog, their messages, letting me know their likes, and also referring to my posts on their blogs. Here is the breakdown of number of viewers and visitors from various countries, as of a minute ago. Thanks a lot! Your positive feedback has been, and will always be, well appreciated. Have a great day! - Deo, Sunday, February 3, 2013.:

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