Thoughts of Famous Dream Quotes in English Sayings

Dreams have always been a source of inspiration for people across the globe. They are the fuel that ignites our desires, motivates us to push our limits and achieve the impossible. Throughout history, famous dream quotes in English sayings have encapsulated the essence of dreaming and the power of pursuing one's aspirations.

One of the most famous dream quotes comes from the renowned civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. In his iconic speech, he proclaimed, "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." These words resonate with the enduring hope for a better world, a world where equality and justice prevail.

Similarly, the celebrated playwright William Shakespeare once wrote, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." This profound reflection on human existence and the transient nature of life evokes a sense of introspection and contemplation.

The visionary inventor, Thomas Edison, famously said, "If you can dream it, you can do it." This simple yet powerful statement encapsulates the essence of perseverance and determination. It serves as a reminder that no dream is unattainable if one is willing to work tirelessly towards its fulfillment.

In today's fast-paced world, the words of these luminaries continue to inspire and guide us. They remind us that dreams are not mere fantasies, but the seeds from which great achievements grow. Whether it's social change, personal growth, or technological innovation, the spirit of dreaming knows no bounds.

As we navigate our own journeys, let us draw inspiration from these famous dream quotes in English sayings. Let us dare to dream boldly, pursue our passions fervently, and carve our own paths towards a brighter tomorrow.

In the words of Walt Disney, "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." So, dream on, for the world is waiting to witness the magic that unfolds when dreams become reality.

Thought of the Day on Dreams

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

- Steven Spielberg

Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs! Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things! Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine: The past, the present, and the future time. Thy reminiscences transport the soul To memory’s Paradise, its future goal.

- Parley P. Pratt

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we are gone will be a living thing.

- Lita Bane

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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.

- Thomas Edward Lawrence

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

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 their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

- Thomas Edward Lawrence

Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts scepters in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.

- Johnson Quotation

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, ringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a moral sees them.

-  Homer

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 dram 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 Jr.

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

Dream is not that you see in the sleep; dream is that does not allow you to sleep.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Download or Share

A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up.

- Charlie Hedges Download or Share

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

- A Quotation From Henry David Thoreau Download or Share

Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.

- Earl Nightingale Download or Share

Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely.

- Erma Bombeck Download or Share

Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.

- David Bower Download or Share

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

- Brett Butler Download or Share

Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.

- George Lucas Download or Share

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

- James Dean Download or Share

If you can dream it, you can do it.

- Walt Disney Download or Share

Dreams are necessary to life.

- Anais Nin Download or Share

In dreams I have achieved everything.

- Fernando Pessoa Download or Share

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain Download or Share

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

- Goethe Download or Share

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

- William Dement Download or Share

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.

- Martin Luther King Jr Download or Share

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

- Vincent van Gogh Download or Share

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

- Michael Phelps Download or Share

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

- Steven Spielberg *

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Muhammad Ali

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

- Kahlil Gibran

If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

- Jim Carrey

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

- J.K. Rowling

In dreams begins responsibility.

- W. B. Yeats

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

- L.M. Montgomery

Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.

- Robin Sharma

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.

- Donatella Versace

Never leave your dreams unfulfilled.

- James Clear

Think, believe, dream, and dare.

- Walt Disney

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

- William James

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There’s no other definition of it.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

- Williams Shakespeare

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

- Yoko Ono

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

- Edgar Allen Poe

Yesterday’s dreams are often tomorrow’s realities.

- Bruce Lee

Love is what dreams are made of.

- Anonymous

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

- Alexandar Pope

The journey is essential to the dream.

- Francis of Assisi

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

- Akira Kurosawa

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

- Mahatma Gandhi

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.

- Anonymous

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.

- Anonymous

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

- George Lucas

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

- Stephen Butler Leacock

We need men who can dram of things that never were.

- John F. Kennedy

Hope is a waking dream.

- Aristotle

I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

- Frida Kahlo

No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.

Anonymous

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

- Anna M. Uhlich

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

- Germaine Greer

Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.

- Anonymous

No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.

- Anonymous

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

- John Barrymore

Never give up on your dreams.

- Barack Obama

When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme.

- Jiminy Cricket

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

- Arthur Miller

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

- Tecumseh of the Shawnees

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

It has never been my object to record m dreams, just to realize them.

- Man Ray

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

- M. C. Escher

Dream big. Start small. Act now.

- Robin Sharma

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

- Anonymous

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

- Henry David Thoreau

The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.

- Tyrese Gibson

The world is full of Kings and Queens, who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

- Anonymous

If you aren’t living your dreams then you’re living your fears.

- Daymond John

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

- Erma Bombeck

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

- William Faulkner

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

- Oprah Winfrey

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.

- John Ruskin

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Herman Melville

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

- Amy Tan

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

- Anatole France

Hope is a waking dream.

- Aristotle

I know how men is exile feed on dreams of hope.

- Aeschylus

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. Cynthia Ozick

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

- Cynthia Ozick

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Euripides Download or Share

One must desire something to be alive.

Margaret Deland Download or Share

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

- Friedrich von Schiller Download or Share

Dreaming men are haunted men.

- Stephen Vincent Binet Download or Share

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.

Delmore Schwartz Download or Share

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

Brett Butler Download or Share

Sometimes a dream almost whispers, it never shouts. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear.

- Steven Spielberg

Dreaming is hoping. Hoping is desiring. Desiring is suffering. Suffering is living. But your dream is worth suffering for.

- Maxime Lagace

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

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.

John Lennon

Dreams Quotes in English

Dreams come true.  Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

- John Updike

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

- Pablo Picasso

It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.

- Randy K. Milholland

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

- Winifred Holtby

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

- Christopher Reeve

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.

- Anonymous

You give up your dreams by always deciding to pursue them tomorrow.

- Shane Parrish

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

- Anonymous

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I wake up the pillow was gone.

-Tommy Copper

There is nothing like dream to create the future.  Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.

- Victor Hugo

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

- Leo Tolstoy

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

- Alan Watts

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.

- Haruki Murakami

We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

- Jesse Jackson

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dram things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

- George Bernard Shaw

Real life is the present moment – not the memories of the past, nor the dreams of the future.

- Walpola Rahula

All that appears is devoid of independent existence, just like a magical apparition or a dream.

- Padmasambhava

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further then a great idea that inspires no one.

- Mary Kay Ash

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

- John Sterling

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

- Eric Hoffer

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

- Colin Powell

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

- William Dement

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

- Edgar Allan Poe

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

- Logan Pearsall Smith

The aim of life is self-development.  To legalize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

- Oscar Wilde

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

- Francis Ford Coppola

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

- Gaston Bachelard

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

- Victor Hugo

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.

- Simone Weil

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

Asking your children to carry the burden of your dreams is the worst form of child labour.

- Thibaut

Make the action to move closer to your dream the first action you take each day.

- Leo Babauta

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

I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

- Steven Spielberg

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

Our dreams and goals are never completely realized. They are always there before our eyes, but always just slightly out of reach. And so, as we strive to fulfil our vision, we must make the most of every living moment.

- Jacqueline Onassis

They say dreams are the windows of the soul - take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

- Henry Bromell

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

- Kahlil Gibran

Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

- Woody Allen

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

- Douglas Adams

Freedom is the word that the human dream feeds on, that no one can explain nor fail to understand.

- Cecília Meireles

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

- Carmelo Anthony

There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we, are the imagination of ourselves.

- Bill Hicks

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

- Alexandre Dumas

It's the independent American spirit that built this country - hardworking entrepreneurs who believe in the reality of their dreams.

- Robert E. Hughes

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because you tread on n dreams.

- William Butler

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

- Joel Barker

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

- Anonymous

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

- Napoleon Hill

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

- Edgar Allan Poe

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

- Victor Hugo

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

- Dr. Dale E. Turner

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

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

- W. L. Shirer

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

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.

- Henry David Thoreau

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of eternity.

- Edgar Allan Poe

I do not want to die… until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

- Kathe Kollwitz

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope.

- Anonymous

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 grater meaning.

- Oprah Winfrey

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

- William Arthur Ward

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

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

- Pauline Kael

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

- Lin Yutang