Dreams - Quotes and Proverbs

Sleeping is a waste of time, except when you dream. This page is a collection of proverbs and quotes about dreams and dreaming.

Dream of painting — I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” (Vincent Van Gogh)

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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell

A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

Gilbert H. Grosvenor

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

J.R.R. Tolkien

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Bad men do what good men only dream.

Gavin Ewart

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Jim Valvano

Be persistent in pursuing your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?

Jon Bon Jovi

Catch your dreams before they slip away.

The Rolling Stones
Source: Ruby Tuesday Lyrics

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.

Edgar Cayce

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Vincent van Gogh

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

John Lennon

I dream of hiking into my old age.

Marlyn Doan

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent van Gogh

I dream, therefore I exist.

August J. Strindberg

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Chuang Tsu

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

Stan Laurel

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Bob Dylan

If you have more dreams than achievements-you're young.

Shimon Peres

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.

J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Quoted: Dumbledore

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

Erma Bombeck

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

Roger Babson

Listen to the color of your dreams.

The Beatles

Long after the ladies had retired, did the hot elder wine, well qualified with brandy and spice, go round, and round, and round again; and sound was the sleep and pleasant were the dreams that followed.

Charles Dickens
Source: The Pickwick Papers

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Mick Jagger

Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind.

The Rolling Stones
Source: Ruby Tuesday lyrics

Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but they have different dreams.

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose..... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.

J.B.S. Haldane

Sleep on a bed of silver and dream of gold.

The caged bird dreams of clouds.

The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

François Jacob

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

Austin O'Malley

The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Victor Hugo

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

When I dream, I am ageless.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.

Bill Clinton

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Les Brown

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

Greta Thunberg

You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.

(unknown author)

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