Dreams

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

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

—Arnold Toynbee

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

—Carl Sandburg

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed.

—Langston Hughes

I remember a medicine man in Africa who said to me almost with tears in his eyes: "We have no dreams anymore since the British are in the country." When I asked him why, he answered, "The District Commissioner knows everything."

—Carl Jung

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

—Paul Gauguin

The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.

—Cid Corman

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

—Charles Lindbergh

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

—A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

—Jack Kerouac

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

—William Dement

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

—Max Beerbohm

I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

—M.C. Escher