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“The value of dreams, like … divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message.”
Rollo May (1909–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have the right to follow your dreams. I'm giving you permission to follow your dreams.”
Martin de Maat (1949–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Brother! — if we were rich we'd stick our chests out and hold our heads high! It is dreams that have destroyed us.There is no more pride in horses or in rein holding. We sit hunched together brooding our fate. Well — all things turn bitter in the end whether you choose the right or the left way and — dreams are not a bad thing.”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters Since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all.Watched the men who rode you, Switch from sails to steam. And in your belly you hold the treasure That few have ever seen. Most of them dreams, Most of them dreams.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And yet, I refuse to agree with those who say I have no right to have dreams or ambitions, especially if those dreams or ambitions are not for myself, but for our country and my fellow countrymen.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enough of dreams! No longer mock The burdened hearts of men! Not on the cloud, but on the rock Build thou thy faith again;O range no more the realms of air, Stoop to the glen-bound streams; Thy hope was all too like despair: Enough, enough of dreams.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99
“[...] it’s much easier to achieve big dreams than it is small ones. Big dreams require big passion. And when you’ve got passion it’s easier to inspire others to come along and help you.”
Lewis Pugh (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An apprentice is a master in dreams. A master is an apprentice even in dreams.”
Tarık Günersel (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those of your fellow countrymen who believe that France dreams or has dreams of the political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken...no reasonable Frenchman has ever dreamt of annexing a parcel of German territory.”
Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (25 February 1924), quoted in Anthony Adamthwaite, Grandeur and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe 1914-1940 (1995), p. 101
“That was the evil of Dr. Bertram Waters: the perpetuation of hopeless dreams, compounded by the betrayal of those dreams to make his own a reality.”
George Alec Effinger (1947–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have a choice: pursue your dreams or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.”
“I still have dreams. Politics without dreams – it would be a nightmare.”
Donald Tusk (born 1957) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: 'Dreamer' Tusk says UK may yet stay in the EU BBC News (22 June 2017)
“The intensity of Melissa’s loyalty troubled Snake. She had never known anyone who was so completely oblivious to self-interest. Perhaps Melissa could not yet think of herself as someone with a right to her own dreams; perhaps so many of her dreams had been taken from her that she no longer dared to have them.”
Vonda N. McIntyre (1948–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Jung worked with patients from all over the world, he began to study the mythologies of different peoples... Folklore and mythology... appeared as the collective dreams of a people, expressing for the group what poetic imagination, phantasies, visions and dreams express for the individual. Both the individual and collective types of experience are vital to human life.”
Morton Kelsey (1917–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My nightmares are almost always about war - wandering the streets, searching for something that's lost forever. But it's possible for me to will myself to have pleasant dreams. For me, the most wonder fragrance in the world is new film. You open the canister for the first time and breathe deeply. That night, the same wonderful fragrance fills your dreams. It's grand.”
Ishirō Honda (1911–1993) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Honda, interviewed by James Bailey, Tokyo Journal, April 1991
“So ever and again young Godric’s dreams well up to flood old Godric’s prayers, or prayers and dreams reach God in such a snarl he has to comb the tangle out, and who knows which he counts more dear.”
Frederick Buechner (1926–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I just want to keep working and being enthusiastic and having dreams and working hard to make those dreams come true, anything else is boredom.”
Pat Carroll (actress) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.”
“Small towns were terrible places to grow up with world-sized dreams—especially when those dreams were the only things you had left to hold onto.”
Robert Asprin (1946–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A candy-colored clown they call the sandman Tiptoes to my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper "Go to sleep. Everything is all right."I close my eyes, then I drift away. Into the magic night, I softly say A silent prayer like dreamers do. Then I fall asleep to dreams, my dreams of you.”
Roy Orbison (1936–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would like a society in which lam allowed to grow and fulfil my desires, my dreams because we all have dreams.”
Grace Mumbi Ngugi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The average city dweller wanders between financial institutions and tedious office routines, sometimes moderated by air conditioning. He often dreams about vacations and freedom. He dreams about having the ability to pay his bills until one day his heart stops and he is gone. Other such soldiers will fall prey to the jaws of the marketplace.”
José Mujica (1935–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will marry the man of my dreams and not the man society dreams for me.”
Rita Dominic (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Follow your passion. Follow your dreams. I know that sounds fluffy, but it's not crazy - I think it's very realistic. If you're doing something that you enjoy doing and you're pursuing your passion, that's the best chance you have of your dreams coming true.”
Robert Futterman (born 1958) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Episode 025: Robert K. Futterman - Retail”, Real Estate REality Check (2019)
“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope that the public, especially the young generation, positively receives and responds to the message in the song through love, unity, working together, lifting up one another, not giving up on their dreams, working hard, and having hope that one day they will reach their dreams”
Kate Bashabe (born 1990) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bashabe on wearing many hatsThe New Times(June 10, 2019)
“The gift of life comes but once, and you have in a lifetime to accomplish all your dreams, visions, goals, and ambitions unapologetically. Remember, happiness comes in the fulfillment of these dreams, visions, goals, and ambitions.”
Adenike Akinsemolu (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dreams are dreams and the future is like a hall of mirrors reflecting the past and offering up wavering illusions until everything shatters and you were cut to ribbons by shards of reality.”
Jeffrey Ford (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All our dreams can come true as long as we have the right dreams... [A]s long as we think logically, this is the world where everything behaves correctly, and... where any toy we want, we can play with, as soon as we've dreamed it up.”
Eugenia Cheng (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Believe in your dreams, that dreams that seems impossible, You can achieve it and more! Just believe.”
Iseoluwa Abidemi (born 2004) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do have scary acting dreams.” She explained, “Mostly I have recurring anxiety dreams [where I’m] right about to go on stage or about to film a scene, and you don’t know what the scene is!”
Julianne Nicholson (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without concrete and sustained peace and stability, Africa's economic growth and poverty eradication will remain unfulfilled dreams. They will make our promises empty and a betrayal to the African masses. We must act collectively to nurture their hopes and make their dreams come true.”
Sam Nujoma (1929–2025) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement at 59th Session of the United Nations General Assembly" (2004)
“Scattered in the wind Earthboy calls me from my dreams: Dirt is where the dreams must end.”
James Welch (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to swear 70 times 7 times that never, never, never, will one drop of blood fall in Haiti...We all want peace. Let all weapons be silent. To all of those who question their dreams, remember Oct. 15. To all of those who are discouraged in the pursuit of their dreams, remember Oct. 15.”
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 1953) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in "ARISTIDE RETURNS TO ACCLAIM IN HAITI" By Douglas Farah (October 15, 1994)
“In Russian dreams, they have occupied all of Ukraine, and in our dreams, we have a victory parade … into Moscow.”
Kyrylo Budanov (born 1986) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This defiant Ukrainian general has no smile — and surprising remarks on Trump" in The Washington Post (April 17, 2024)
“When the world is burning, Fired within, yet turning Round with face unscathed; Ere fierce flames, uprushing, O’er all lands leap, crushing, Till earth fall, fire-swathed; Up amidst the meadows, Gently through the shadows, Gentle flames will glide, Small, and blue, and golden. Though by bard beholden, When in calm dreams folden,— Calm his dreams will bide.”
Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Memory is fallible. Dreams overwrite the reality, fond fantasies inform the dreams.”
Adrian Tchaikovsky (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across. (p90)”
Cherie Dimaline (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was timorous, changeable, inconsistent, erratic, gloomy and absorbed, then sparkling and excitable by turns, his fine face pale and puffy — his fine head rapidly turning grey — his figure growing too portly — his hand trembling, his eye restless, his demeanour that of one who drifted in and out of dreams and some of them bad dreams.”
Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Federal Story (1944) [Of Lord Rosebery]
“There’s a long, long trail a-winding Into the land of my dreams, Where the nightingales are singing And a white moon beams; There’s a long, long night of waiting Until my dreams all come true, Till the day when I’ll be going down That long, long trail with you.”
Stoddard King (1889–1933) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There's a Long Long Trail A-Winding" (wr. 1913; pub. 1914), chorus
“As a person, you must have dreams, and actualising these dreams means that you have to struggle.”
Zainab Abdulkadir Kure (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would say to be patient and don't give up so easily. Running a business is not a quick rich thing. It takes time, effort, money, positivity, and longevity. Entrepreneurship is not for the faint at heart. You may not see results right away, but I guarantee if you stay committed to your dreams your dreams will stay committed to you.”
Priscilla Williams wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have decided, and we are determined that as long as we have this opportunity, we are going to interpret the dreams of the President. We are going to manifest, actualize and materialise the dreams of President Yoweri Museveni”
Justine Lumumba Kasule (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never give up; believe in yourself and your dreams no matter where you are, no matter your situation and conditions; never give up on your dreams. Be confident, be honest, be humble, work hard and never forget to put God first. Nothing is impossible.”
Princess Shyngle (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be true to yourself. The dreams that you had as a child were real and pure. With sheer determination, those dreams can come true.”
Keneiloe Molopyane (born 1987) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bones - Keneiloe Molopyane,Copyright 2024, A Project of CodeMakers NPC
“I love my dreams, I love my job. Everything about this, I will do anything to make my dreams come true. This is why I’m thankful to all my supporters, to all the production houses that gave me a job, to my directors, and my colleagues,”
Maris Racal (born 1997) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chooses to be single: Maris Racal admits regrets about past relationship, Jan Milo Severo - Philstar.com 7 July 2025.
“Women who are leaders can utilize this and make an even bigger impact. I know not everyone dreams about being a beauty pageant winner, but everyone should be allowed to pursue their dreams.”
Riza Santos (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Interviewer: What value do utopia and dreams have for you? De André: I think that a man without utopia, without dreams, without ideals, that is to say without passions and without enthusiasm, would be a monstrous animal made simply of instinct and reason, a kind of wild boar with a degree in pure mathematics.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This may be the night that my dreams might let me know All the stars are closer All the stars are closer All the stars are closer This may be the night that my dreams might let me know All the stars are closer All the stars are closer All the stars are closer”
SZA (born 1989) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All the Stars" (2018)
“In every African country dreams have meaning and we give a lot of attention to dreams”
Shadreck Chikoti (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source