We all have dreams. Dreams make us wonder, dreams open possibilities, dreams make us believe in a better future. Dreams are the wishes of our subconscious. We live in a time where the majority have forgotten about their dreams. As we age, we tend to focus on what we should be doing rather than what we want to be doing. The more we grow up, the more we underestimate the power of dreaming.

Go out there and be a dream chaser. Live life on your terms and live it to the limit. You’ll discover here 400 of the best dream quotes I could find. Don’t constrain yourself by what you think or what other people think. Just use these dream quotes to guide you. Let these quotes inspire within you the belief that you can achieve your dreams.

Put aside all the doubts you have, and begin dreaming!

400 Dream Quotes To Inspire You And Motivate You

Top 10 Dream Quotes

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” – David Herbert Lawrence

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” – Joel A. Barker

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.” – Sai Baba

“Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” – Robert Kennedy

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

What is Dream?

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“A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.” – Toni Morrison

“A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask.” – Fox Mulder

“A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.” – Erich Fromm

“The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.” – Sigmund Freud

“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.” – Tyrese Gibson

“Dream is not that you see in the sleep; dream is that does not allow you to sleep.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” – James Allen

“Dreams are the most curious asides and soliloquies of the soul. When a man recollects his dream, it is like meeting the ghost of himself. Dreams often surprise us into the strangest self-knowledge. Dreaming is the truest confessional, and often the sharpest penance.” – Alexander Smith

“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

“Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep.” – Cristiano Ronaldo

“Dreams are never concerned with trivia.” – Sigmund Freud

“Dreams are necessary to life.” – Anais Nin

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman

“Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” – Henri Amiel

“Dreams are dreams and reality is reality. We have to make the dreams happen.” – Andy Ruiz, Jr.

“Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.” – John Dryden

“Dreams are a scientific fact.” – Robyn Hitchcock

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – John Lennon

“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” – The Talmud

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell

“Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.” – David Bower

“Dream On Dreamer”

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

“Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall 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

“Dream in a pragmatic way.” – Aldous Huxley

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

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

“Dreams of joy return with night, and dwell upon the past- and every grief that clouds our light. Reminds us of the last!” – Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

“Dreams in the dusk, only dreams closing the day and with the day’s close going back to the gray things, the dark things, the far, deep things of dreamland.” – Carl Sandburg

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” – Erma Bombeck

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell

“Dreams can change, if we all stuck with our first dreams there would be a lot of cowboys and princesses running around.” – Stephen Colbert

“Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.” – Janet Jackson

“Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.” – Queen Latifah

“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement

“Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all mean a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.” – H.F Hedge

“Dreaming is a part of life. Everyone dreams, but does it actually happen? Most dreams just fade away and don’t come back to mind until you have one foot in the grave or feel some type of remorse for your future.” – Lonii

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“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

“The interpretation of dreams is a great art.” – Paracelsus

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” – Sigmund Freud

“What is a dream ? That transient power that cometh near the midnight hour. To carry me to pastures new and bid my anxious fears adieu.” – Alan Parry-Booth

Best Dream Quotes

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“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

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King

“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.” – Lao Tzu

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” – Napoleon Hill

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus

“During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.” – Zhuangzi

“Follow your dreams; you may not make money, but will never be poor. Follow other people’s dreams; you can make money but will never be rich.” – Paulo Coelho

“Freedom is the word that the human dream feeds on, that no one can explain nor fail to understand.” – Cecília Meireles

“I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

“I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The clichés like “follow your dreams,” and “live in the moment” are actually correct.” – Naval Ravikant

“The distance between your dreams and reality is call action.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” – James Allen

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – Williams Shakespeare

“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.” – Rumi

Short Dream Quotes

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“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” – Akira Kurosawa

“Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Let your dreams be your wings.”

“It may be that those who do most, dream most.” – Stephen Butler Leacock

“If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” – Jim Carrey

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” – Vincent van Gogh

“I don’t sleep, I dream awake.” – Donald Glover

“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo

“I am a daydreamer and a nightthinker.”

“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

“Honor your dreams and they will be honored.” – Gabby Bernstein

“Follow your dreams, they know the way.” – Kobe Yamada

“Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Don’t call it a dream, call it a plan.”

“Breathing dreams like air.”

“Forsake all inhibitions, pursue thy dreams.” – Walt Whitman

“Build a dream and the dream will build you.” – Robert H. Schuller

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” – John Barrymore

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.” – Suzy Kassem

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” – Elvis Presley

“Any dream is possible, if you have courage.” – Walt Disney

“As long as you pray and believe in your dreams, anything is possible. ” – Andy Ruiz, Jr.

“At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve

“Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?” – Jon Bon Jovi

“Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.” – Katrina Mayer

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

“Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.” – Robin Sharma

“Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.” – Paulo Coelho

“Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.” – Donatella Versace

“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.” – Kahlil Gibran

“I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.” – Steven Wright

“In dreams I have achieved everything.” – Fernando Pessoa

“In dreams begins responsibility.” – William Butler Yeats

“It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” – Erma Bombeck

“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Keep on dreaming even if it breaks your heart.”

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” – Joseph Campbell

“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester

“Never leave your dreams unfulfilled.” – James Clear

“Never give up on your dreams.” – Barack Obama

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” – Lupita Nyong’o

“Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.” – Amos Bronson Alcott

“Open your eyes, for this world is only a dream.” – Rumi

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

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.” – Carl Sandburg

“Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.” – L.M. Montgomery

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” – Marian Wright Edelman

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Procrastination is slow poison for your dreams.”

“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.” – Joseph Conrad

“Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.” – Patch Adams

“Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.” – Dave Matthews

“That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.” – Neil Gaiman

“The journey is essential to the dream.” – Francis of Assisi

“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” – Kahlil Gibran

“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” – Tom Bradley

“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” – Khalil Gibran

“When we can’t dream any longer we die.” – Emma Goldman

“Yesterday’s dreams are often tomorrow’s realities.” – Bruce Lee

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Kahlil Gibran

“You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

“You must make your dream a priority in order for it to become your life.” – Bob Proctor

Inspirational Dream Quotes

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“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Ah, nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” – Jack Kerouac

“Chasing dreams a sense following, realizing making dreams of tomorrow today’s memories.” – Mary Steffen

“Death is the price we pay for life. Pain is the price we pay for pleasure. Disillusionment is the price we pay for daring to dream.” – Thibaut

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

“Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James

“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

“If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.” – Orison Swett Marden

“If you dream, then you can do anything. If you dream, you’re halfway to destiny. If you dream, dream the impossible. If you dream, cause a dream’s unstoppable.” – Toni Braxton

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” – Les Brown

“Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen

“Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” – Ashley Smith

“Men dream but dreams hold no value here. What was first the bright light of hope has now turned into a long night of captivity. Lost in the dark we surrender our minds and forget who we are. But some of us have woken up. They remind us that we have a choice.” – Edward Kenway

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” – Wilma Rudolf

“Recounting the strange is like telling one’s dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one’s entire day.” – Neil Gaiman

“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

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” – Anais Nin

“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.” – Heywood Broun

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.” – Mooji

“Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.” – Wim Wenders

“You only dream as big as you think and you only think as big as what you see.” – Tom Bilyeu

“Young dreams !—old dreams of young days— Shall the new dream vex us as they did ? Or as things worth censure or praise ? Real toil is ours, real trouble, Dim dreams of pleasure and pride ; Let the dreams disperse like a bubble, So the toil like a dream subside.” – Adam Lindsay Gordon

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung

Motivational Dream Quotes

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“An Arrow Can Only Be Shot By Pulling It BackwardSo When Life Is Dragging You Back The Difficulties, It Means That It’s Going To Launch You Into Something GreatSo Just Focus, And Keep Aiming.”

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.” – Carmelo Anthony

“Make the action to move closer to your dream the first action you take each day.” – Leo Babauta

“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.” – Jesse Jackson

“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” – William Arthur Ward

“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

“Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.” – Ben Carson

“When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.” – Harvey Mackay

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

“You give up your dreams by always deciding to pursue them tomorrow.” – Shane Parrish

“You don’t let your dreams happen, you make them happen.” – Tom Bilyeu

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

I Have A Dream Quotes

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“We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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, Jr.

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “Free at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

American Dream Quotes

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“Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.” – Thomas Perez

“A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as a lubricant of social and economic mobility.” – Nicholas Kristof

“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.” – Archibald Macleish

“I feel that I am a citizen of the American Dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.” – Eldridge Cleaver

“I say to you today, my friends, so 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

“That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin

“The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.” – Tammy Duckworth

“I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn’t have any money; a lot of times we didn’t have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I’m a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man – I’m living it.” – Dave Bautista

“The American Dream belongs to all of us.” – Kamala Harris

“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. (It is not) “… a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” – James Truslow Adams

“The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.” – Mark Rubio

“The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.” – Charles B. Rangel

“To realize the American Dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It’s a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.” – Cristina Saralegui

“The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.” – Jon Meacham

“My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation – truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American Dream.” – Gary David Goldberg

“The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that’s held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.” – Ted Yoho

“I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country.” – Whoopi Goldberg

“For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.” – Bernie Sanders

“The American Dream is a phrase we’ll have to wrestle with all our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we’re redefining it now.” – Rita Dove

“Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.” – Michelle Obama

“It’s all about success, success, success. Because we live in this mythology of anyone can achieve the American dream, if you’re not successful, if you’re not Tim Ferriss, then you’re a loser.” – Naval Ravikant

“When we make college more affordable, we make the American Dream more achievable.” – William J. Clinton

“I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the Dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.” – Buzz Aldrin

“We’re told that the American dream will bring you happiness, and it will not. I think a lot of us learn as we get older that happiness is internal. Happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop.” – Naval Ravikant

“In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.” – Julian Castro

“I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.” – Bruce Springsteen

“To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.” – Maya Lin

“The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches – with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone – was once at the core of the American Dream.” – Robert Reich

“I love entrepreneurship because that’s what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.” – Mark Cuban

Funny Dream Quotes

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“Television is simply automated daydreaming.” – Lee Loevinger

“Delaying pursuing your dreams is like saving up sex for old age — you might get what you want eventually, but it won’t be as much fun.” – Shane Parrish

“God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, he gave them to you. He will order your steps and take you where you need to be.” – Joel Osteen

“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.” – Douglas Adams

“I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about morality, sustainability and philosophy instead of the Kardashians.” – Keanu Reeves

“I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” – William Butler Yeats

“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

“If you even dream of beating me, you’d better wake up and apologize.” – Muhammad Ali

“It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.” – Jason Mraz

“People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.” – Dom Helder Camara

“When your deepest thoughts are broken, keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreaming it’s time to die.” – Shannon Hoon

Sweet Dreams Quotes

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“Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“There is nothing like champagne to ensure sweet dreams.” – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

“I worked on my voice for ‘Sweet Dreams’ but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy’s actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.” – Jessica Lange

“She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.” – Victor Hugo

“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn’t it?” – Stephen King

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” – Bram Stoker

“It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.” – Stephen King

“If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.” – Woodrow Wilson

“Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don’t feel it’s comfortable.” – Yao Ming

“Sweet dreams though the guns are booming.” – Erich Maria Remarque

“Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.” – Dave Matthews

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.” – John Keats

“You want sweet dreams, lose the attitude and you might find I’ll give you reason to have them.” – Kristen Ashley

Dare To Dream Quotes

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“Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.” – Nelson Mandela

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.” – Judy Garland

“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” – Michael Jackson

“The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable. The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.” – Bert McCracken

“Our dreams prove that to imagine – to dream about things that have not happened – is among mankind’s deepest needs.” – Milan Kundera

“Dare to dream of your great success.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.” – Harold Arlen

“The happiness in our hearts is there for we dare to dream in light when the world tells us to scream in the darkness.” – David Paul

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes

“Dare to dream of your great success. Become intimate with those things which deeply motivate you and regularly work toward the realization of that mission.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.” – Jean Genet

“Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.” – Merle Shain

“As long as we dare to dream and don’t get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible – there’s truly no end to where our dreams can take us.” – Hilary Swank

“Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.” – Earl Nightingale

“I dare to dream greatly; I dare to fail greatly. I dare to tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled dreams, for I may dream again. I dare not tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled life, for I may never live again.” – Philippos Syrigos

“Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don’t give up.” – Marketa Irglova

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Go after a dream. There’s a tremendous amount to risk if playing it safe.” – Bill Burr

“The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.” – Joe Girard

“Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.” – Vinod Khosla

“This world is vast enough to handle anything you dare to dream.” – Hill Harper

“Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little “scary action,” as well.” – Joe Vitale

“For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win.” – Dhirubhai Ambani

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“Think, believe, dream, and dare.” – Walt Disney

“Dare to do what you dare to dream.” – John Tortorella

Dream Big Quotes

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“We are all of us dreamers of dreams, on visions our childhood is fed.” – William Herbert Carruth

“People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesn’t belong to them.”

“It’s not until they tell you you’re going to die soon that you realize how short life is. Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison-cell, life is what you make of it. Dream big.” – Stefán Karl Stefánsson

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”

“If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough.”

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

“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.”

“Dare to dream big dreams. For those are the dreams that have the power to push your whole world forward.” – Ralph Marston

“No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.”

“Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date.”

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”

“You’re Never Too Young To Dream BIG!”

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

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

“Stop telling your big dreams to small-minded people.”

“A dream is a wish your heart makes.”

“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

“Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.” – Santosh Kalwar

“In my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.” – Vladimir Nabokov

“Dream big – dream very big. Work hard – work very hard. And after you’ve done all you can, you stand, wait, and fully surrender.”

“It’s important to have specific dreams. Dream big. Dream without fear.” – Randy Pausch

“Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.” – Jesse Jackson

“Dream big. Start small. Act now.” – Robin Sharma

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

“The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.”

“Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it.”

Dream Come True Quotes

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“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” – Tupac Shakur

“Reality is just a dream that one can never awaken from.” – Thibaut

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“You can begin to have dreams grander than you have ever had, and see many of them come true. All you have to do is learn and use the same skills that are used by those who do achieve their dreams. ” – Steven Scott

“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.” – Woodrow Wilson

“We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.” – Katie Holmes

“The Say If You Dream A Thing More Than Once, It’s Sure To Come True.”

“The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Muhammad Ali

“Man, alone, has the power