The reason why we chase and work hard to achieve our goals is that we dream of success. Dreams are what push us to do our best in everything we do. It encourages us to keep on going no matter how hard things can be because we want that certain dream to come true. We want to bring it to life. We definitely must not let it stay as a dream. We have to make it happen. A person who doesn’t dream is a person with no direction. If you don’t dream of succeeding or achieving your goals, you will never feel satisfied and fulfilled in life. If we don’t dream, we won’t be able to make this world a better place to live for our kids and grandkids. We have to remember that when we dream of something, it’s not just for us, it’s also for our future generation.
We need a sense of purpose for us to move forward. When we dream, we are giving ourselves something to aim for. It leads us to the right direction when at times we lose our way. Our dreams keep us on track and push us to move forward. Our dreams are our life’s purpose. Once we finally achieve and made that dream happen, we will feel a great sense of pride and accomplishment. It will feel great because we worked hard for it and we know we deserve every bit of reward we receive.
These dream quotes that we listed for you are from people who are dreaming, who dreamed, and who succeeded after years of hard work and perseverance. We hope they inspire you to keep on working for your dreams too!
Dream Quotes
1. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. – Napoleon Hill
2. 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. – J. Cole
3. I don’t design clothes, I design dreams. – Ralph Lauren
4. I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed. – Christopher Nolan
5. Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line. – Luke Bryan
6. It’s strange how interesting your dreams are, but when someone tries to tell you their dream you’re just like “Whatever! Why don’t you send me an email so I can delete it?” – Jim Gaffigan
7. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. – Colin Powell
8. 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
9. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
10. Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path. – Phillip Sweet
11. A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me. – David Bailey
12. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. – Gail Devers
13. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
14. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes
15. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
16. Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals. – LL Cool J
17. 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
18. Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams. – Donovan Bailey
19. You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. – Michael Phelps
20. I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. – Mike Tyson
21. Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. – Khalil Gibran
22. You have to dream before your dreams can come true. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
23. Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up. – Rachel Corrie
24. Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. – Malala Yousafzai
25. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. – Pope John XXIII
26. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson
27. Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. – Tupac Shakur
28. I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. – Ferdinand Porsche
29. 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
30. Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. – Paulo Coelho
31. Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. – Les Brown
32. 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. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
33. Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams. – Ben Carson
34. A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality. – Yoko Ono
35. Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream. – Khalil Gibran
36. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. – Anais Nin
37. A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers. – Suzy Kassem
38. 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
39. Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality. – Travis Bradberry
40. The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. – Tupac Shakur
41. In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that’s what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true. – Loretta Young
42. 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 Rudolph
43. I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
44. Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? – Leonardo da Vinci
45. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung
46. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow. – Langston Hughes
47. 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. – Henry David Thoreau
48. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. – James Dean
49. Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true. – Lindsey Vonn
50. Education is not a tool for development – individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams. – Nita Ambani
51. 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. – Kalpana Chawla
52. New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
53. I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. – Frida Kahlo
54. 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. – T. E. Lawrence
55. 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
56. Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. – Joseph Campbell
57. If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you’re not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist – well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas. – Lindsey Stirling
58. 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
59. But only in their dreams can men be truly free, It was always thus and always thus will be. – Robin Williams
60. Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants. – Jack Handey
61. We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. – Jeremy Irons
62. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. – Paul Valery
63. Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
64. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
65. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France
66. Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream. – Debby Boone
67. Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in. – Emmitt Smith
68. Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem
69. So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. – Donald Trump
70. The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. – Charlotte Bronte
71. A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perseverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough. – Robert Kraft
72. Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. -Sigmund Freud
73. Don’t let your dreams be dreams. – Jack Johnson
74. A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. – Pam Brown
75. Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely. – Erma Bombeck
76. Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don’t let anyone put you in a box. – Daya
77. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown
78. Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen. – Corin Nemec
79. The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. – Sigmund Freud
80. No person has the right to rain on your dreams. – Marian Wright Edelman
81. My story, I feel like it’s amazing, because it shows people no matter where you come from, no matter what your lifestyle is, your dreams could still come true if you believe in yourself and push hard to do what you want to do. – Shanice Williams
82. Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will? – Jon Bon Jovi
83. I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. – Bob Dylan
84. The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods. – Robin S. Sharma
85. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. – Jonas Salk
86. Keep true to the dreams of your youth. – Friedrich Schiller
87. Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
88. I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later. – Mitch Hedberg
89. I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery – that’s how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts. – Kim Barnouin
90. When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. – Tecumseh
91. It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say when you look at the world map, ‘This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.’ I used to say, ‘One day, I’m going to travel these places.’ – Jimmy Cliff
92. If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. – Alice Walker
93. I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams. – Katie Ledecky
94. The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
95. Everyone loves a comeback story, and everyone loves the underdog as well. I kind of feel like I’ve been the underdog. Hopefully, that inspires people to not give up on themselves and their lives and not give up on their dreams. – James Arthur
96. Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead. – Jim Valvano
97. There’s nothing as exciting as a comeback – seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance. – Rachel Griffiths
98. I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up. – Laurie Hernandez
99. In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything. – Twyla Tharp
100. Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream. – Federico Fellini
101. Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams? – Tim Burton
102. It’s kind of funny how that happened. When I was a child, I had a dream of one day becoming very influential and being in the entertainment world. I really wanted badly for that to happen, and in the last couple of years, my manager told me I was nominated for the group of the Most Influential Vietnamese-American Individuals in the world, along with generals and ambassadors and surgeons. It’s an honor. It’s mind-boggling. I’m a college dropout; I’m a high school failure, someone who came from a homeless background, but I understand the American pop culture and doing comedy from my heart led me to be in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. – Dat Phan
103. So I went to the Doctor’s yesterday. He said, “What appears to be the problem?” I said, “I keep having this dream, night after night, beautiful girls rushing towards me and I keep pushing them away.” He said, “How can I help?” I said: “break my arms.” – Tommy Cooper
104. You would play house, you would fake vacuum. Fake vacuum with your friends, that was awesome. It’s great because when I see my wife vacuum now I’m like, ‘She is living her childhood dream.’ – Nate Bargatze
105. There are many talented people who haven’t fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith. – James Cameron
106. It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams. – Vin Diesel
107. The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential. – John C. Maxwell
108. 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
109. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – J. K. Rowling
110. The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal. – Harsha Bhogle
111. If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. – Les Brown
112. Don’t let the winds blow your dreams away… or steal your faith in God. – Vin Scully
113. When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed. – Marilyn Manson
114. Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live. – Joe Montana
115. Your thoughts guide your life, so make sure that the focus of your thoughts are positive! We must always take time out of our day to recognize how far we have come, how blessed we are, and how we can learn from what we have been through, preferably on a day to day basis. Don’t focus on things that scare you, or that you think may eventually cause you pain! You are going to be okay! Discipline your focus on the things in life that you truly dream of, and what you know in your heart that you deserve.
116. Stay focused on your dream, your endeavor, your goal & contentment for self. Don’t waste your time on anything that does not contribute to your growth.
117. If you dream to achieve something you should be ready to sacrifice everything and anything it requires.
118. Dream big and make a big future for yourself.
119. You are never too old to learn new things and to dream a new dream in life.
120. Devote yourself to the idea: make it happen, struggle with it, overcome your fears, and smile. Don’t forget: this is your dream.
121. Martin Luther King had a dream, but he also worked hard to make his dream come true, you have to do the same. -Sonya Parker
122. Having hope without faith is like having a powerful dream with no wings.
123. We dream of having a clean house – but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don’t have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work. – Marcus Buckingham
124. I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It’s not always so perfect like that. – Patrick Dempsey
125. I feel like I’m making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself. – Willow Smith
