dreams quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

America is another name for opportunity.

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.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

Dream and you shall become.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

I always wanted a family.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.