“I have a vision and not a mere dream.”

“If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.”

William Morris book News from Nowhere

“That is my dream. But frankly, I do not know if Western feminists have the courage or clarity of vision to help me realize it.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author

“A vision without a task is but a dream.
A task without vision is but drudgery.
A vision and a task are the hope of the world.”

Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet

“Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?”

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

“Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

Kālidāsa Classical Sanskrit writer

“We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“From the pain come the dream.
From the dream come the vision.
From the vision come the people.
From the people come the power.
From this power come the change.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

“I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“When I visited Costa Rica earlier this year, I saw how a country can develop successfully without an army, to become a stable democracy committed to peace and the protection of the natural environment. This confirmed my belief that my vision of Tibet in the future is a realistic plan, not merely a dream.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet