Unfulfilled Dreams Quotes

• It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Dream, Alive

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes
  and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Dream

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• Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Dream, Vision, Wish

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• Concern yourself not with what you tried
  and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Hope

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• I dare to dream greatly; I dare to fail greatly. I dare to tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled dreams, for I may dream again. I dare not tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled life, for I may never live again.

  Philippos Syrigos

  Dream, Ashes, May

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• It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Dream, Reaching Goals, Reaching For The Stars

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• Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

  Gordon Livingston

  Dream, Trying, Limitation

  Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.55, Da Capo Press

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• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Dream, Dry Up

  "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

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• Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Stars, Goals And Life, Reaching Goals

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• The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Lying, Weight Loss, Goal

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• You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Leadership, Dream, Famous Inspirational

  Back to Methuselah pt. 1, act 1 (1921). This was a favorite quotation of Robert F. Kennedy's, and Edward M. Kennedy used it in his eulogy of Robert Kennedy.

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Educational

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Dream, Stars, Lying

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• Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Dream, Teenager, Loss

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.208, David C Cook

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• Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.

  Pope John XXIII

  Hope, Frustration, Thinking

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• he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dream, Path, Ache

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• Future is your projection of unfulfilled desires. The more unfulfilled you are, the bigger a future you have. The more unfulfilled is your being, the richer the dreams you have of the future. But it is just in your mind.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Mind, Desire

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• It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Lying, Goals Dreams, Mind

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• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Respect, Skin Color

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Respect, Opportunity

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Book, Kids

  "Anthony Bourdain swears he's a nerdy fanboy". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. June 28, 2012.

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• All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

  Lisa See

  Love, Dream, Disappointment

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• For here in America, those who once had no hope will give their kids the chance at a life they always wanted for themselves. Here in America, generations of unfulfilled dreams will finally come to pass.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Kids, America

  "Senate's immigration reform bill passes". www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2013.

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