illustrations

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

Marsha Norman

character

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

accomplish

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

Anatole France

inpiring

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

Francis FordCoppola

future

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

Thomas Jefferson

noble

The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer.

Moncure Conway

time

Now is the time to make dreams come true. Why not?

Bev Parker

trust

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

idleness

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

Virginia Woolf

index

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

Zadok Rabinowitz

maturity

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

right

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Marian Wright Edelman

touchstones

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

David Thoreau

planning

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

Gloria Steinem

lives

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

action

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

task

A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.

from a church in Sussex, England. ca. 1730

perfection

All of us have failed to reach our dream of perfection, so I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

dreams

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

G. K. Chesterton

defined

For all their bitching about what's holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they're being held from.

Timothy Ferriss

achieve

You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.

Anonymous

dreamer

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

Wallace D. Wattles

power

A dream has power to poison to sleep.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

why not

You see things and say why? But I dream things that never were and I say why not?

George Bernard Shaw

wisdom

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner

success

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.

Anonymous

love

Love is what dreams are made of.

Anonymous

follow

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.

Anonymous

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