Great quotes and aphorisms on dreams by famous authors, philosophers, artists and literary writers to inspire people to take action on their magic aspirations.
September 25th is World Dream Day. On this day, people inspired to take action on their aspirations declare, share, celebrate and activate their dreams. This day reminds us that we all have the ability to make positive changes in our lives and in the world, if only we truly dream it.
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Carl William Brown
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
If Cervantes in his Don Quixote wanted to explore the areas of the unknown, of fantasy, of dream and madness, I am content to venture into the boundless ones of stupid madness.
Carl William Brown
What if nothing exists 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
Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true.
Fred Van Amburgh
Life is a dream from which one wakes up by dying.
Virginia Woolf
The role of true intellectuals must be to transform reality into dream and dream into reality, but not only in novels and not only for some.
Carl William Brown
Dream interpretation is the “royal road” to the interpretation of the unconscious.
Sigmund Freud
I’ll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I’ll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
Tony Arata
I’ll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I’ll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
Tony Arata
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold
When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.
Isaac Asimov
Dreams never deal with trifles; we do not allow trifles to disturb our sleep. Seemingly innocent dreams turn out to be malicious when we try to interpret them.
Sigmund Freud
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
W. H. Auden
Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could choose something else.
Babyface
To realize a dream, as well as to realize illusions, means to destroy it.
Carl William Brown
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
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard
You have the courage and power to live your dreams.
Les Brown
The humorist does not need to sleep to dream, he can do it very well even when awake; in addition there is the advantage that he can hardly have nightmares.
Carl William Brown
A dreamer is a man with his feet firmly planted on the clouds.
Ennio Flaiano
Perhaps there is something worse than vanished dreams: losing the desire to dream again.
Sigmund Freud
The most solid pleasure of this life is the vain pleasure of illusions.
Giacomo Leopardi
You have the courage and power to live your dreams.
Les Brown
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Djuna Barnes
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The moment of enlightenment is when a person’s dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
Vic Braden
Tell me who you sleep with and I will tell you who you dream of.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The desires that conscience repudiates take refuge in dreams, but it is enough to repudiate conscience and all reality becomes a dream.
Carl William Brown
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
John Bunyan
You’ve got to create a dream. You’ve got to uphold the dream. If you can’t, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.
Eric Burdon
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs
Follow your bliss.
Joseph Campbell
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
Joyce Chapman
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
Joyce Chapman
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
John Cheever
And yet our thoughts cannot help but push beyond the boundaries of the most ephemeral view to encounter in that desolate land full of emptiness and memories the dream of a better existence.
Carl William Brown
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy
When I dream, I am ageless.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.
Robert Conklin
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to, he drowns.
Joseph Conrad
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.
Jiminy Cricket
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die tomorrow.
James Dean
Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
Richard M. DeVos
You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
Umberto Eco
If Freud had had my mother’s dreams at his disposal he would have become even greater than he was.
Carl William Brown
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Havelock Ellis
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
When we can’t dream any longer, we die.
Goldman Emma
When we can’t dream any longer, we die.
Goldman Emma
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream – a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows – is essentially poetry.
Michel Leiris
Like dreams, small creeks grow into mighty rivers.
Author Unknown
No dreamer is ever to small; no dream is ever to big.
Author Unknown
One can dream of horizons bigger than the imagination – how you go about implementing those dreams will be the key to your success.
Author Unknown
I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope on earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Your dream might change our planet.
Ejlnard Lindaman
I love the challenge.
Nancy Lopez
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Dean Marshall
The illusions that many cultivate make the dreams of a few come true.
Carl William Brown
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act!
Alfred A. Montapert
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
Gerard De Nerval
What the dream reveals is the shadow of wisdom existing in man, even if during waking he is not aware of it.
Paracelsus
Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin
Everything starts as somebody’s daydream.
Larry Niven
We are close to waking up when we dream that we are dreaming.
Novalis
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
Austin O’Malley
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.
Dorothy Parker
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
Frederick Salomon Perls
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Wilfred A. Peterson
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pirandello
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Dream the impossible dream, fight the invincible enemy, endure the unbearable pain, run where the bold dare not go.
Joe Darion
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Alexander Pope
Only do what your heart tells you.
Princess Diana
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust
Man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinowitz
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Man Ray
Your ability will grow to match your dreams.
Jim Rohn
You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Diana Ross
I dream of you to wake; would that I might dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
Christina Rossetti
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
Dr. Jonas Salk
Know thyself, believe in God, and dare to dream.
John Salley
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
Chinese Proverb
If you want your dreams to come true, don’t over sleep.
Yiddish Proverb
Literature cultivates our little daily utopias, our daily dreams, our daily hopes, and consoles us for our annual disillusions.
Carl William Brown
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Dreams show you that you have the power…
Helen Schucman
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Robert H. Schuller
Don’t kill the dream – execute it!
Robert H. Schuller
Knowledge is nothing, imagination is everything.
Anatole France
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Robert H. Schuller
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
William Shakespeare
That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
William Shakespeare
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.
William Shakespeare
We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
You see things and say “Why?” but I dream of things that never were and say “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw
It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time.
P.K. Shaw
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Robert Southey
Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities.
Author Unknown
Your dreams minus your doubts equal your true worth.
Author Unknown
Your dreams will come true… if you can see it… if you believe in it… then you can achieve it.
Author Unknown
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
St. Basil
I remember when I was in school, they would ask, “What are you going to be when you grow up?” and then you’d have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
Gwen Stefani
Dream great dreams and make them come true.
Author Unknown
Dream the impossible dream, fight the unbeatable foe, strive with your last once of courage to reach the unreachable star.
Joe Darion
Dream your wildest dreams and you will live a wild life.
Author Unknown
We should show our lives not as it is or how it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
Count Leo Tolstoy
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
John Sterling
I dream, therefore I exist.
August J. Strindberg
Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.
The Holy Bible
If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
All men of action are dreamers.
James G. Huneker
Castles in the air: they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
Henrik Ibsen
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
All dreams are dreams of comfort, they obey the intent to continue sleep, rather than to wake. The dream is the guardian, not the disturber, of sleep.
Sigmund Freud
Some people are made of the same stuff that dreams are made of, others of the same stuff that shit is made of!
Carl William Brown
If you can dream it, you can do it. our limits are all within yourself.
Brian Tracy
If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
Donald Trump
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 Turner
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
Author Unknown
Be bold with your dreams. Nurture the dreams that inspire you to go beyond your limits.
Author Unknown
Dreamers look into the future and see promise. Those who do not dream only see the future.
Author Unknown
Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
Jim Valvano
When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!
Author Unknown
You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work.
Author Unknown
You can never dream too big, but you can think too little.
Author Unknown
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
Peter Ustinov
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
Dream big and dare to fail.
Norman D. Vaughan
Dreams come true for those who work while they dream.
Author Unknown
If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed.
Author Unknown
If you can dream it and you want it bad enough, then the reality will become real.
Author Unknown
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 unfamiliar and the unknown.
Denis Waitley
We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Denis Waitley
Don’t ever let anyone steal your dreams.
Dexter Yager
Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
Lord Weinstock
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
Marcia Wieder
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Oscar Wilde
Dreams are free.
Author Unknown
If you want to succeed and prepare to do so, you WILL achieve your dreams.
Author Unknown
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
We grow by our dreams.
Woodrow T. Wilson
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
Woodrow T. Wilson
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
Joseph Epstein
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.
Debbi Fields
His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm S. Forbes
One must have strategies to execute dreams.
Author Unknown
Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell.
Author Unknown
Oversleeping will never make one’s dreams come true.
Author Unknown
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm S. Forbes
We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
Maria Irene Fornes
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but faith with action is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but desire and work is invincible.
Thomas Robert Gaines
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.
Joe Girard
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
Ralph Hodgson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.
Robert K. Greenleaf
For anything new to emerge there must first be a dream, an imaginative view of what might be.
Robert K. Greenleaf
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Florence Griffith-Joyner
If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.
Mark Victor Hansen
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
Johnny Hart
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
Johnny Hart
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 Shakespeare.
Francis Herbert Hedge
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Kerouac Jack
You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo
It’s not what the dream is but what the dream does.
John H. Johnson
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
Carl Jung
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don’t dream I will make it, I won’t even get close.
Henry J. Kaiser
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
Herbert Kaufman
Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Neil Kendall
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
Robert F. Kennedy
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
Sister Corita Kent
In dream consciousness… we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
Pir Vilayat Khan
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Michael Korda
It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen B. Leacock
It may seem that those who do the most, dream the most.
Stephen B. Leacock
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Edwin Markham
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
Henry Miller
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World Day Dreams September the 25th 2024
