Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

—Joyce Brothers

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

—William Faulkner

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

—Paul Valery

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

—Gloria Steinem

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

—Mark Twain

There is no straight line to a dream.                          —Jack Welch

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

—Abraham Lincoln

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

—James Michener

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

—Thomas Jefferson

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

—Kahlil Gibran

Life is never easy for those who dream.

—Robert James Waller

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

—Henry David Thoreau