Dream Quotes - Page 17

• My family was always very supportive. Whether you're an actor or not, everybody hears the horror stories of people going to L.A. and trying to be an actor, and their dreams are crushed, and they end up working for the IRS. So they were always protective to the point that they wanted me to have a backup plan, which is understandable, but there was always something inside of me that knew: backup plan, schmackup plan.

  Zachary Levi

  Horror Stories, People, Supportive

  RELEVANT magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. April 30, 2003.

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Hope, Grateful

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Black History, Ceilings

  The Independent, June 9, 1988.

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• My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doom And Gloom, Hopeful, Despair

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.85, Modern Library

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• Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

  Jane Roberts

  Events, Awake, Perceive

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• Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspiring, Graduation, Lost Youth

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• Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Forgiving, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.204, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dreams don't work unless you do

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Encouragement, Wall

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Jun 01, 2016

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• 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

  Life, Different, Would Be

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• I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Challenges, World, Doers

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• If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Motivational, People, Needs

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• There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

  Douglas Everett

  Motivational, Persistence, Reality

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• Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Prophet, Just A Dream, Small Dreams

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• May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Law, May, Gravity

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• I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Courage, Commitment

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• Dream the impossible dream.

  Joe Darion

  Inspiration, Impossible, Impossible Dream

  "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (song) (1965)

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• One must desire something to be alive.

  Margaret Deland

  Desire, Alive

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• Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job.

  Alex Garland

  Jobs, Memories, Vocabulary

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Coma”, p.135, Penguin

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• Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Mind, Trouble

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 1, l. 398

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• Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Challenges, Looks, Demand

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• 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

  Window To The Soul, Nuts, Exposure

  "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.

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• Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies zusammen). What a delight this is I cannot tell ! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing lively dream.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Imagination, Delight, Lively

  "Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart".

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• The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Motivational, Educational, Life Changing

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• In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Giving, Mind

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