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Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.
— Nigel Lythgoe
I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
— Gabrielle Aplin
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
— Carol Ann Duffy
I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
— Candice Swanepoel
I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
— James Iha
The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.
— Helen Sharman
I'm a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don't get up in the morning and think I'm inspirational I just get up thinking that I love horses. 
— Lee Pearson
Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
— Damien Rice
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.
— Cheryl James
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
— Pope Paul VI
Our ideals are our better selves.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.
— Michael D. Higgins
I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
— Adam Beach
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
— Stephen Mangan
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
— Taylor Dayne
We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents.
— Steve Garvey
I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.
— Bobby Keys
I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!
— Conor Maynard
I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he's a great role model.
— Steven Bauer
I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.
— Robert Battle
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
— Garry Hynes
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
— Harry Seidler
I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.
— Lee Ritenour
Thelonious Monk was one of the musicians I most connected with early on. I'm a huge Betty Carter fan, and the way that Abbey Lincoln and Shirley Horn grew immensely from the time they were young is so inspirational.
— Cecile McLorin Salvant
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
— William Bartram
I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
— Carly Schroeder
I view art as an inspirational tool.
— Thomas Kincade
I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
— Osric Chau
I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
— Ireland Baldwin
I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
— Marianne Vos
You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.
— Dustin Clare
I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
— Ashthon Jones
I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.
— Don Everly
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.
— Honor Harger
Think with your whole body.
— Taisen Deshimaru
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.
— Boris Vallejo
Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
— Cheryl Crawford
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
— Colin Powell
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
— Gail Devers
Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
— Phillip Sweet
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
— Oprah Winfrey
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.
— Donovan Bailey
Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.
— LL Cool J
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
— Paulo Coelho
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
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
— Khalil Gibran
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
— Rachel Corrie
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
— Khalil Gibran
Sleep is the best meditation.
— Dalai Lama
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
— Ferdinand Porsche
I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
— Mike Tyson
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
— Les Brown
Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.
— Nita Ambani
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
— Tupac Shakur
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
— Herb Caen
Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.
— Travis Bradberry
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
— Ryunosuke Satoro
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
— Carl Jung
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
— Mark Victor Hansen
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
— Ben Carson
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
— Pam Brown
In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
— Loretta Young
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
— Tupac Shakur
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
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
— Jeremy Irons
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
— Friedrich Schiller
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
— Kalpana Chawla
So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.
— Donald Trump
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
Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.
— Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
— Sasha Cohen
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more.
— John O'Donohue
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
— Wilma Rudolph
We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
— Tabatha Coffey
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?
— Zhuangzi
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!
— Paula Radcliffe
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
— Alice Walker
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
— Kim Elizabeth
We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 
— William Shakespeare
It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'
— Jimmy Cliff
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
— Gloria Steinem
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
— Jimmy Carter
My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.
— Mike Farrell
I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
— J. Cole
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they're impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.
— Katie Ledecky
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
— Fidel Castro
Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true.
— Roxane Gay
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
— Carl Jung
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
— Sigmund Freud
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
— Tim Burton
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
— Debby Boone
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
— Corin Nemec
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
— Marilyn Manson
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
— Rachel Griffiths
I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.
— Joel Osteen
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
— Leonardo da Vinci
Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
— John Wooden
Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.
— Sharon Draper
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. 
— Theodore Roosevelt
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
— Les Brown
It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
— Vin Diesel
I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts.
— Kim Barnouin
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
— Harriet Tubman
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
— Anatole France
I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
— Ralph Lauren
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
I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.
— Lance Bass
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
— James Allen
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
— Bob Dylan
Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
— Jim Valvano
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
— Nelson Mandela
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
— Marcus Buckingham
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.
— Lindsey Vonn
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
— Patrice Motsepe
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
— Mick Jagger
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
— Langston Hughes
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
— Paul Watson
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
— William Butler Yeats
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.
— Mireille Guiliano
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
— Emily Bronte
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.
— Hugh Hefner
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
— Laurie Colwin
Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
— Vin Scully
There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come true - that, to me, is what's beautiful about Los Angeles. It's full of these people who have moved there to chase these dreams.
— Damien Chazelle
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
— Wes Craven
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
— Twyla Tharp
If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.
— Bryce Harper
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
— Douglas Coupland
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
— Joseph Campbell
I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.
— Britney Spears
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
— Mitch Hedberg
When you have little girls bringing you your action figures for you to sign, it's like, 'Wow, things are happening, and dreams do come true.'
— Sasha Banks
Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.
— Chris Brown
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
— J. G. Ballard
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
— Florence King
I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.
— David Lynch
People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
— Mary McAleese
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
— Chris Kyle
When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
— John C. Maxwell
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
— Anais Nin
Everyone loves a comeback story, and everyone loves the underdog as well. I kind of feel like I've been the underdog. Hopefully that inspires people to not give up on themselves and their lives and not give up on their dreams.
— James Arthur
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
— Giorgio Armani
I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
— Kacey Musgraves
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
— Tecumseh
I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That's what I want to do.
— Martin Garrix
I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.
— Thom Tillis
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
— D. H. Lawrence
Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.
— Debbie Ford
It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
— Jim Carrey
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
— Frida Kahlo
The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.
— John Tesh
The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
— John C. Maxwell
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
— Ralph Lauren
And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
— Donald Trump
I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.
— Katie Stevens
Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, 'Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?' Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can't.
— Connor Franta
I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
— Miguel
In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul.
— James E. Faust
We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality - and love life along the way - than we think we do!
— Rachele Brooke Smith
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
— William Butler Yeats
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
— Max Beerbohm
You have to keep going and pursue your dreams.
— Joey King
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
— Douglas Adams
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
— Khalil Gibran
Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
— Emmitt Smith
I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.
— Amanda Crew
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
— Christina Aguilera
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
— James Cameron
Dreams grow if you grow.
— Zig Ziglar
Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
— Usher
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
— Jonas Salk
As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
— Jimmy Webb
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
— Denis Waitley
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
— Tim Burton
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
— Arna Bontemps
I know it's cliche to say, 'When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.' But it is true: When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. So I just want people to follow their dreams.
— Tika Sumpter
You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
— Taylor Swift
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
— Danica McKellar
Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?
— Apolo Ohno
When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself, 'Does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson, who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child America?'
— Donald Trump
The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
— Kailash Satyarthi
My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. 
— Mary Shelley
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
— George Bernard Shaw
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
— Eugene Ionesco
I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can't believe that I'm an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
— Pooja Hegde
I feel like I'm making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.
— Willow Smith
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
— Eva Green
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
— Robin S. Sharma
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
— Dexter Gordon
I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.
— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
— Les Brown
She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.
— Jamie Foxx
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
— Candace Parker
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
— Robert H. Schuller
I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.
— Rani Mukerji
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
— Joe Montana
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
— Paracelsus
A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
— Emil Zatopek
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
— Virginia Woolf
I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.
— Julian Castro
I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
— J. Cole
You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
— Anthony Hamilton
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
— J. K. Rowling
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
— Barack Obama
Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.
— Mariella Frostrup
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
— Mary Webb
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
— Paul Wellstone
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
— Man Ray
My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
— Anthony Hopkins
Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.
— Jennifer Hudson
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.
— Alan Moore
One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.
— Kevin Kwan
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
— Luigi Pirandello
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.
— Paul Walker
I'm a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.
— Brock Lesnar
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
— Pindar
All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.
— Colin Kaepernick
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
— Paul Bryant
Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.
— Justin Rosenstein
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
— Neil Gaiman
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
— Salvador Dali
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
— Lester B. Pearson
You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.
— Marlee Matlin
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
— Federico Fellini
Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.
— John Lasseter
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
— M. C. Escher
No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. 
— Anais Nin
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
— Baltasar Gracian
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
— Erich Fromm
All men of action are dreamers.
— James Huneker
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
— John Barrymore
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
— John Locke
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
— Joseph Conrad
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
— Walter Scott
Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
— Jim Bakker
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
— Janet Jackson
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
— Joel Osteen
Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
— Herbert Kaufman
Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.
— Stefano Gabbana
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.
— Greg Anderson
Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
— Liz Murray
I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.
— Sergey Brin
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
— Robert Klein
Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
— Ralph Marston
Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.
— Shimon Peres
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
— Princess Diana
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
— Jack Johnson
I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.
— Curtis Jackson
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
— Gary Ryan Blair
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
— Christopher Reeve
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.
— Thomas Menino
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
— Donald G. Mitchell
Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
— LL Cool J
Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
— Queen Latifah
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.
— Jim Woodring
My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
— John Mayer
In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.
— Bo Burnham
Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.
— Jacob Latimore
Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.
— Anthony Browne
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
— Carl Jung
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
— Marsha Norman
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
— Samuel Johnson
In our dreams we are always young.
— Sarah Louise Delany
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
— Jesse Jackson
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
— Georges Bataille
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
— Leonard Cohen
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
— Robert A. M. Stern
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
— James M. Barrie
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
— Stephen Spender
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
— Burt Rutan
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
— Alphonse Karr
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
— Walt Disney
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
— Werner Herzog
Never let your dreams go away.
— Mike Piazza
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.
— Derek Jeter
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
— Steve Winwood
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.
— Joshua Chamberlain
Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
— Kevin Costner
Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. 
— Gustave Meyrink
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
— Julio Cortazar
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
— Max Beerbohm
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
— Marya Mannes
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
— Jack Johnson
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
— Lorraine Hansberry
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
— Les Brown
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
— Victor Hugo
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
— Marian Anderson
You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.
— Jay Weatherill
Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
— Aung San Suu Kyi