Everything begins with a dream. Hard work, goal-setting, success, achievement and everything else comes after it. These dream quotes will help you dream bigger and dream better, and above all dream.

Dream Quotes

1. I dream for a living. – Steven Spielberg

2. Hope is a waking dream. – Aristotle

3. When I dream, I am ageless. – Elizabeth Coatsworth

4. Dream the impossible dream. – Joe Darion

5. Dreams are necessary to life. – Anais Nin

6. Dare to be wrong and to dream. – Friedrich von Schiller

7. If you dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney

8. Dream! Dream! And then go for it! – Desmond Tutu

9. Nothing happens unless first a dream. – Carl Sandburg

10. One must desire something to be alive. – Margaret Deland

11. Our aspirations are our possibilities. – Samuel Johnson

12. It may be those who do most dream most. – Stephen Leacock

13. God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. – Elizabeth Barrett

14. Live your spirit’s dreams, not your mind’s. – Alan Cohen

15. Whatever you’re ready for is ready for you. – Mark Victor Hansen

16. Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. – Brian Tracy

17. Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. – Jorge Luis Borges

18. Dreams are the touchstones of our personality. – Henry David Thoreau

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

20. Dreams are logs that feed the fire of our souls. – Marcela Bennett

21. To know, to think, to dream. That is everything. – Victor Hugo

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

23. To achieve big things you have to have big dreams. – Conrad Hilton

24. Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. – Mary Oliver

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

26. There is nothing like a dream to create the future. – Victor Hugo

27. It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. – Henry James

28. Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. – Doug Ivester

29. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. – Edgar Allen Poe

30. Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. – Bill Cosby

31. Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true. – T.E. Lawrence

32. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. – Paul Valery

33. You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you. – Paulo Coelho

34. We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. – Arthur O’Shaughnessy

35. Plant the seeds of your dreams and weed all the objections out. – Mary Anne Radmacher

36. Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams. – Cheryl Richardson

37. When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let it go. – Carol Burnett

38. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

39. If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. – Thomas Alva Edison

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

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

42. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform one million realities. – Maya Angelou

43. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

44. Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. – Wendy Wasserstein

45. As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. – Toni Morrison

46. The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. – Robert H. Schuller

47. Don’t look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams. – Michael Beckwith

48. The Creator has not given you a longing to do what you have no ability to do. – Orison S. Marden

49. You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. – Mary Manin Morrissey

50. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. – Henry David Thoreau

51. At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself. – Albert Einstein

52. Someday we’ll find it, that rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me. – Kermit

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

54. Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau

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

56. Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

57. A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now. – Neale Donald Walsch

58. The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. – Winifred Holtby

59. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. – Leon Suenes

60. The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can’t have it. – Anthony Robbins

61. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail. – Dorothea Brande

62. We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. – May Sarton

63. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. – Jim Rohn

64. When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. – Napoleon Hill

65. If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do? – Bernie Siegel

66. Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. – Pamela Vaull Starr

67. Every heart has a hidden treasure. A secret wish. A silent dream. A special goal to long for. – Jill Wolf

68. We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. – Dale Carnegie

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

70. If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. – Thomas Jefferson

71. Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

72. The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. – Sarah Ban Breathnach

73. When you work, you fulfill a part of earth’s fondest dream assigned to you when that dream is born. – Kahlil Gibran

74. Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. – Lyman Frank Baum

75. Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. – Belva Davis

76. We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. – Paulo Coelho

77. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. – Abraham Lincoln

78. Ideas must word through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

79. In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow. – Louise Driscoll

80. The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. – Elizabeth Gilbert

81. Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it! – Sathya Sai Baba

82. We know not where our dreams will take us, but we can probably see quite clearly where we’ll go without them. – Marilyn Grey

83. 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

84. 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

85. Baby step by baby step, you have what you need right now to start moving in the direction of your happiest dreams. – Marta Davidovich Ockuly

86. The dream and the dreamer are always matched. You could not have a dream without the means, right now, to begin it. – Marta Davidovich Ockuly

87. You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. – Barbara Sher

88. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney J. Harris

89. You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. – Denis Waitley

90. It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams. – Pierre Curie

91. It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. – Robert H. Goddard

92. Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. – Napoleon Hill

93. A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. – Charles M. Schwab

94. You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want. – Marcia Wieder

95. More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. – Amy Grant

96. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. – Carl Jung

97. Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem

98. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill

99. The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. – Mike Dooley

100. The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams. – W. Arthur Porter