imagination

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

transcend

The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being.

Tully C. Knoles

power

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

secret

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Louise Driscoll

cease

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Malcolm S. Forbes

exists

What if nothing exits and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

Woody Allen

match

It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.

Randy K. Milholland

key

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

record

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

Man Ray

windows

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

true

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Freidrich von Schiller

cognizant

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

Edgar Allan Poe

unsettling

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

Brett Butler

hope

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

feed

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus

regrets

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

ageless

When I dream I am ageless.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

got to have

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Denis Waitley

living

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown

renewable

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

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