115 Dreams Quotes to inspire you to follow your dreams

Dreams are like the paths we imagine for ourselves, leading us to what we want most in life. They’re like guiding lights, giving us hope and keeping us motivated. Over time, poets, thinkers, and dreamers have shared quotes about dreams that still inspire us today. Here are some of dream quotes that show how important and powerful dreams can be.

Dreams Quotes

1. “Let your actions be louder than your words and your dreams bigger than your fears.” – Invajy

2. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

3. “Dream big, it’s the first step to success, making goals come second.” – Invajy

4. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

5. “Today’s realities are yesterday’s dreams come true.” – Invajy

6. “The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” – Tom Bradley
7. “It may be that those who do most, dream most.” – Stephen Butler Leacock
8. “Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams a reality.” – Invajy
9. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
10. “When you cease to dream, you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes
11. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
12. “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman
13. “Doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams will only result in success.” – Invajy
14. “When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, they take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.” – Harvey Mackay
15. “Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.” – George Lucas
16. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
17. “Dreams aren’t what you leave behind when morning comes. They are the stuff that fill your every living moment.” – David Cuschieri
18. “If you keep believing, the dream that you wish will come true.” – Cinderella
19. “Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.” – Leon Suenens
20. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
21. “Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.” – Richard Wilkins
22. “The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown
23. “Dreams are not what you see in sleep, it is the thing which doesn’t let you sleep.” – A.P.J Abdul Kalam
24. “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce
25. “Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.” – Nick Vujicic
26. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell
27. “The only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
28. “Dream big, work hard.” – Sherly Swoopes
29. “Dreams make things happen, nothing is impossible as long as you believe.” – Anonymous
30. “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
31. “Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.” – Urijah Faber
32. “Dreams are necessary to life.” – Anais Nin
33. “Dare to dream big, living without dreams is like body without soul” – Invajy
34. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
35. “Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” – Akira Kurosawa
36. “Always nurture your inner childhood dreams, life will become beautiful.” – Invajy
37. “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti
38. “Dream and give yourself permission to envision a YOU that you choose to be.” – Joy Page
39. “A dream is a wish your heart makes.” – Walt Disney
40. “All men of action are dreamers.” – James Huneker
41. “I was a great dreamer of day dreams.” – Abraham Cahan
42. “If you don’t dream, you won’t die, but even you won’t be alive without them.” – Invajy
43. “Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” – LL Cool J
44. “Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.” – Paracelsus
45. “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
46. “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” – Dale Turner
47. “The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.” – Ralph Marston
48. “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
49. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
50. “Nurturing and Living your dream is the most thrilling adventure of life.” – Invajy
51. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
52. “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
53. “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” – John Barrymore
54. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
55. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde
56. “Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. “Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” – Henry David Thoreau
58. “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Khalil Gibran
59. “Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.” – Jim Valvano
60. “Always dare to dream. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.” – Invajy
61. “Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” – James Allen
62. “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” – Amy Tan
63. “Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.” – Gary Keller
64. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jemison
65. “As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.” – Barbara Sher
66. “If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” – Jim Carrey
67. “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.” – T.E. Lawrence
68. “It’s difficult to follow your dream. It’s a tragedy not to.” – Ralph Marston
69. “Yesterday’s dreams are often tomorrow’s realities.” – Bruce Lee
70. “Make the action to move closer to your dream the first action you take each day.” – Leo Babauta
71. “I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” – Steven Spielberg
72. “Never leave your dreams unfulfilled.” – James Clear
73. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
74. “Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.” – Earl Nightingale
75. “You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.” – Martin Luther King Jr
76. “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” – George Bernard Shaw
77. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
78. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – Williams Shakespeare
79. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” – Edgar Allen Poe
80. “You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
81. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Muhammad Ali
82. “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
83. “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle
84. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
85. “The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. “Dream big dreams, commit to you true passion, and you will learn to fly.” – Vadim Kotelnikov
87. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – John Lennon
88. “Do all you can to make your dreams come true.” – Joel Osteen
89. “Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.” – Robin Sharma
90. “Nothing happens unless first a dream.” – Carl Sandburg
91. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.” – Albert Einstein
92. “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
93. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
95. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
96. “I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson
97. “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.” – Jean Genet
98. “Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
99. “That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.” – Neil Gaiman
100. “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” – Kahlil Gibran
101. “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” – Jonas Salk
102. “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true. You will have to work for it, however.” – Richard Bach
103. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and the willingness to work hard for them.” – Michelle Obama
104. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” – Richard Branson
105. “Follow your dreams, they know the way.” – Kobe Yamada
106. “Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.” – Wim Wenders
107. “ Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.” – Dan Pena
108. “When you stop having dreams and ideals – well, you might as well stop altogether.” – Marian Anderson
109. “You’ve got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.” – Elvis Presley
110. “The only dreams that come true are the ones you chase, if you do nothing, you get nothing.” – Joseph Atser
111. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
112. “The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” – Ben Stein
113. “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” – Les Brown
114. “Do what they think you can’t do.” – Duke Fergerson
115. “Dream, for the day when dream will come true. Take another dream, when the dream comes true.” – Invajy