I Had A Dream Quotes

• 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, Dream, Different

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• I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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• If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Inspiring, Dream

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.799, Jester House Publishing

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• I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Past, Men

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [211]

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• So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

  Christopher Reeve

  Positive, Inspiring, Graduation

  Christopher Reeve (1998). “Still Me”, Random House Incorporated

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

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.170, Yale University Press

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• Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

  John Updike

  Positive, Success, Dream

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Mar 19, 2013

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Dream, Courage, Kindness

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• When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Success, Letting Go

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• 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

  Love, Life, Dream

  "HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven" l. 7 (1899)

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  If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

  Les Brown

  Music, Dream, Teacher

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• 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

  Life, Inspiring, Dream

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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