Quotes About Dreams

If you don't go for your dreams, who will?

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar.

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

I had dreams of starting a company like Burmah Shell.

Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?

If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

Take your passion and make it happen.

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.

I come alive the most when I am talking with people about following their dreams. Inspirational speaking is something I am very passionate about and will be doing more of.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.

The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.