lofty dreams

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.

John Ruskin

future

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

paintings

I dream my painting and paint my dreams.

Vincent Van Gogh

well lived

Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a dream of hope.

Anonymous

thy

Wing to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.

Anonymous

never

In a dream you are never eighty.

Anne Sexton

wake up

No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.

Anonymous

live

Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

most

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

Stephen Leacock

dare

Dream big and dare to fail.

Norman D. Vaughan

joy

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

lose

There's no time to lose, I heard her say

Catch your dreams before they slip away

Dying all the time

Lose your dreams

And you will lose your mind

Ain't life unkind?

The Rolling stones

dreamer

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

John Lennon

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perseverance

Never give up on your dream... perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

Tawni O'Dell

responsibilities

In dreams begins responsibilities.

Delmore Schwartz

cherish

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

why not

You see things as they are and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

seedings

Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

James Allen

today

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.

Sanskrit Poem

saviors

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

James Allen

vision

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barker

hope...

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

Anonymous

lose

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Mick Jagger

eraser

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

Edgar Allen Poe

civilization

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

Anonymous

price

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

Anonymous

eat

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

Alexandar Pope

cognizant

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of eternity.

Edgar Allen Poe

tread

I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

possibilities

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

dreaming

I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Eugène Ionesco

love

Love is what dreams are made of.

Anonymous

realities

Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities.

Anonymous

measure

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

Robert H. Schuller

still

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr

digest

Dreams digest the meals that are our days.

Astrid Alauda

begin

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

thoughts

Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.

Anonymous

character

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

wake

No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.

Anonymous

colors

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.

The Quote Garden

creative

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.

H.F. Hedge

free

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.

Astrid Alauda

compared

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

Michael de Montaigne

ever

no dreamer is ever too small, no dream is ever too big.

Anonymous

letter

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.

The Talmud

hearts

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

day

For a dreamer, night's the only time of day.

From the movie Newsies

road signs

Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep.

Astrid Alauda

judgment

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more intelligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

Erich Fromm