„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 African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820 - 1913
Quotes about dreams
A collection of quotes on the topic of dreams.
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„It is my dream that one day, great buildings like this one will exist in every corner of the world so every child can grow up with the opportunity to succeed.“
— Malala Yousafzai Pakistani children's education activist 1997
Inauguration of Library of Birmingham, Jan 2013
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„If you're happy in a dream, does that count?“
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, The God of Small Things
„Dreams are like stars; you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.“
— Liam Payne English singer and songwriter 1993
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422617.Liam_Payne
„All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision: to overthrow a farm labor system in this nation that treats farm workers as if they were not important human beings. Farm workers are not agricultural implements; they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded.“
— Cesar Chavez American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist 1927 - 1993
What the Future Holds (1984), Context: All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision: to overthrow a farm labor system in this nation that treats farm workers as if they were not important human beings. Farm workers are not agricultural implements; they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded. That dream was born in my youth, it was nurtured in my early days of organizing. It has flourished. It has been attacked.
„You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
„The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.“
— T. H. White author 1906 - 1964
The Book of Merlyn (1977)
„Well, I knew it was going to be important. That much I knew. In fact, I had thought about sealing it in a dated envelope with my predictions and then opening it 20-30 years later to see if my intuitions were right. I realized this paper marked a new direction. I used to think about it this way-that one day Fuzzy Logic would turn out to be one of the most important things to come out of our Electrical Engineering Computer Systems Division at Berkeley. I never dreamed it would become a worldwide phenomenon. My expectations were much more modest.“
— Lotfi A. Zadeh Electrical engineer and computer scientist 1921 - 2017
1990s, Answer to the question: "Back in 1965 when you published your initial paper on Fuzzy Logic, how did you think it would be accepted?"
„All people's actions were once a dream“
— Theodor Herzl Austro-Hungarian journalist and writer 1860 - 1904
Context: ... but if you will, it may very well be only a legend dreamed up by myself, and will always be so. I had in mind to write a story with a point. There will be those who say, more story than point. After three years we must part, my beloved book. Now you go on your trail of tears. You will have to go through a maze of antagonism and misunderstanding, like through a dark forest. But if you are lucky and meet good people, please send them your father's blessings. He believes that dreams too can be a way to fill the days that man must spend on the face of the earth. The dream is not that far from action as most tend to think. All people's actions were once a dream and all peoples actions will someday be a dream.
Postfix to Altneuland (1902)
„With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.“
— Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
„If you will it, it is no dream.“
— Theodor Herzl Austro-Hungarian journalist and writer 1860 - 1904
„Death only grasps; to live is to pursue, —
Dream on! there 's nothing but illusion true!“
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Poet, essayist, physician 1809 - 1894
Context: Dream on! Though Heaven may woo our open eyes,
Through their closed lids we look on fairer skies;
Truth is for other worlds, and hope for this;
The cheating future lends the present's bliss;
Life is a running shade, with fettered hands,
That chases phantoms over shifting sands;
Death a still spectre on a marble seat,
With ever clutching palms and shackled feet;
The airy shapes that mock life's slender chain,
The flying joys he strives to clasp in vain,
Death only grasps; to live is to pursue, —
Dream on! there 's nothing but illusion true!
"The Old Player" (1861), in Songs in Many Keys (1862).
„It’s called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.“
— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008
Life Is Worth Losing (2005), Context: They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club.... The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice.... And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
„Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.“
— Antonio Machado Spanish poet 1878 - 1939
„A slave dreams of freedom, a free man dreams of wealth, the wealthy dream of power, and the powerful dream of freedom.“
— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000), Niewolnik marzy o wolności, człowiek wolny o bogactwie, bogacz o władzy, a władca o wolności.
