Dream Quotes and Sayings

Posted by Brian

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- Paul Valery

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: – ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’
- Martin Luther King

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
- Eugene Ionesco

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
- Douglas H. Everett

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.
- Bill Watterson

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
- Homer

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
- Evelyn Waugh

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

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- William Shakespeare

Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.
- Gail Godwin

A dream has power to poison sleep.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night.
- Grey Livingston

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
- Christopher Reeve

Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep.
- Astrid Alauda

In dreams begins responsibility.
- William Butler Yeats

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
- Jesse Owens

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

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.
- H.F. Hedge

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
- Oprah Winfrey

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo

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

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
- Paracelsus

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
- Astrid Alauda

Dreams are free therapy.  Consult your inner Freud.
- Grey Livingston


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