Powerful Quotes About Dreaming Big and Reaching Your Goals
Famous Quotes About Dreaming
• “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live” ― J.K. Rowling
• “Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” ― Langston Hughes
• “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
• “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” ― Colin Powell
• “You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.” ― Will Smith
• “Dreams often surprise us into the strangest self-knowledge…. Dreaming is the truest confessional, and often the sharpest penance.” ― Alexander Smith
• “Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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
• “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Dreams are necessary to life.” ― Anais Nin
• “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
• “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
• “The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
•”There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”― Paulo Coelho
• “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” ― John C. Maxwell
• “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
• “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.” ― Belva Davis
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Motivational Quotes About Dream
• “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” ― Anatole France
• “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett
• “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” ― Henry David Thoreau
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr
• “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” ― Wayne Huizenga
• “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” ― George Bernard Shaw
• “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” ― Christopher Reeve
• “Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire—you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.” ― Denis Waitley
• “No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” ― Lupita Nyong’o
• “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” ― Tupac Shakur
• “If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.” ― Lowell Lundstrum
• “If you can’t dream big, ridiculous dreams, what’s the point in dreaming at all?” ― Ronda Rousey
• “Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, they are the things that don’t let you sleep.” ― Cristiano Ronaldo
• “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
• “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.” ― Albert Schweitzer
• “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Nothing happens unless first we dream.” ― Carl Sandburg
• “Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” ― James Allen
• “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ― Gloria Steinem
Chase Your Dream Quotes
• “Never stop dreaming, wake up and chase your dreams.” ― Gift Gugu Mona
• “If you chase anything in life chase the things that get you excited about living. Chase the things that give you hope, happiness and a glimpse of a better life.” ― Avijeet Das
• “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” ― Les Brown
• “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ― Earl Nightingale
• “The only dreams that come true are the ones you chase, if you do nothing, you get nothing.” ― Joseph Atser
• “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” ― Rabindranath Tagore
• “When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.” ― Nicholas Sparks
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ― C.S. Lewis
• “I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.” ― Oprah Winfrey
• “The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.” ― Seth Godin
• “Be determined and never give up. You are much, much better than you think you are. All you need is a burning desire. Follow your dream and you’ll go far.” ― Billy Casper
• “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ― Buddha
• “To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.” ― Chuang Tzu
• “I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.” ― Tracee Ellis Ross
• “To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” ― Leo Buscaglia
Dream Will Come True Quotes
• “Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.” ― Napoleon Hill
• “The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.” ― Roy T. Bennett
• “Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.” ― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
• “Yesterday’s dreams are often tomorrow’s realities.” ― Bruce Lee
• “Dedication sees dreams come true.” ― Kobe Bryant
• “You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.” ― Martin Luther King Jr
• “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” ― Muhammad Ali
• “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” ― James Dean
• “Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?” ― Jon Bon Jovi
• “If you aren’t living your dreams then you’re living your fears.” ― Daymond John
• “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits.” ― Michael Phelps
• “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” ― Anaïs Nin
• “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” ― Brian Tracy
• “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” ― James M. Barrie
• “If you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?” ― Theodor Herzl
Hopes and Dreams Quotes
• “If you knew how great your little dreams are, you wouldn’t let them die.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
• “Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.” ― Pope John XXIII
• “Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” ― Jimmy Carter
• “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.” ― John Wayne
• “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” ― Robert H. Schuller
• “Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.” ― Henry Ford
• “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ― Albert Einstein
• “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” ― Nelson Mandela
• “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.” ― Barbara Kingsolver
• “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ― Martin Luther King Jr
• “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” ― Christopher Reeve
• “Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” ― Amy Tan
• “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” ― Charles Dickens
• “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ― Dale Carnegie
Short Quotes About Dream
• “Hope is a waking dream.” ― Aristotle
• “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” ― Estée Lauder
• “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ― Walt Disney
• “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
• “Dreams are the most curious asides and soliloquies of the soul.” ― Isaac D’Israeli
• “Dare to be wrong and to dream.” ― Friedrich von Schiller
• “It is important to make a dream of life and of a dream reality.” ― Marie Curie
• “We grow great by dreams.” ― Woodrow Wilson
• “All men of action are dreamers.” ― James Huneker
• “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” ― Victor Hugo
• “I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.” ― Andrew Wyeth
• “The flowers of spring are the dreams of winter.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.” ― Victor Hugo
• “Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again.” ― Anaïs Nin
• “Without a dream you’ll not get anywhere.” ― Kemal Atatürk
• “If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” ― Marcel Proust
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Why It’s Important to Have a Dream in Our Lives?
• It gives you a reason for your hard work. When you know what you want, even boring tasks feel meaningful.
• It makes you mentally stronger. Dreams help you turn negativity and doubt from others into valuable feedback, rather than letting them hold you back. Each challenge or criticism can become an opportunity to learn and adjust your approach
• It helps you focus. When you have a dream, you can define your priorities, you skip distractions, and you stay clear on what matters most to you.
• It pushes you to grow. You can’t reach a big dream without learning and changing along the way.
• It turns fear into excitement. Instead of worrying about the result or outcome, you start to see each day as a chance to move closer to your dream and improve.
A dream keeps your spirit alive by giving you a deep sense of purpose. It provides a clear vision of something meaningful you truly want to achieve.
What are The Possible Outcomes of Dreaming Big?
How to Make Your Dream Come True?
• Break goals into smaller part. Start by turning your weekly goals into daily tasks. These small actions should help you reach your bigger milestones.
• Try the WOOP method: Picture your Wish and the Outcome you want. Next, think about what might get in the way and make a clear plan to handle it.
• Learn from what didn’t work so you can make better choices now and adjust your goals as you go.
• Use the OKR framework: Set higher goals, but break them down into steps you can measure. This way, you’ll see your progress and know your goals are within reach.
• Follow the SMART method: Make each goal Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
