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If you can dream it, you can achieve it. Here is a collection of inspiring quotes on dreams to help you chase them.

Inspiring Quotes On Dreams To Help You Achieve Them

Do you dream often? Are you generally puzzled about the importance of dreaming? Scientists across the world have conclusively agreed that dreaming helps you lead a better quality of life. It doesn’t matter if you remember your dreams or not, the trance-like state induced in a dream positively influences your body. Apart from the physical sensations, a dream is a goal or an inspiration almost every man has. It makes life worth living, and you look forward to ‘chasing your dreams’ every day. It goes without saying that your dream goals become the biggest motivators in your life. These dreams can be outlandish or uncomplicated. It could be as simple as finishing a book or as difficult as climbing a mountain. What matters is discipline and hard work you have to achieve your dreams. You can read through these collected quotes on following your dream and find the right spark to inspire your life.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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.

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

Lady Gaga
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

John Lennon
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Neil Gaiman
I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

A. A. Milne
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

Neil Gaiman
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

Neil Gaiman
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike
I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W B Yeats
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Henry David Thoreau
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Jean Genet
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

Albert Einstein
To die, to sleep - 
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...

William Shakespeare
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey
Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

Aung San Suu Kyi
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

Bob Dylan
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

Henry David Thoreau
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

Haruki Murakami
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

Steven Spielberg
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, here is the place where I love you.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, here is the place where I love you.

Suzanne Collins
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Roald Dahl
That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

Hermann Hesse
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau
Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers

Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers

Jordan Belfort
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe
I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Hermann Hesse
I'm telling you, people. Everyday we wake up is another blessing. Follow your dreams and don't let anyone stop you. Never say never.

I'm telling you, people. Everyday we wake up is another blessing. Follow your dreams and don't let anyone stop you. Never say never.

Justin Bieber
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare
Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

Neil Gaiman
Don't you find it odd,

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

Ethan Hawke
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.

Tupac Shakur
It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

Jason Mraz
I am nothing.
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

Fernando Pessoa
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." (Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)

W B Yeats
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo
Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

W. H. Auden
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

John Steinbeck
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Tim Burton
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Haruki Murakami
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

William Faulkner
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.

Paulo Coelho
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Tupac Shakur
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Werner Herzog
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

Jack Kerouac
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

Daisaku Ikeda
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Franz Kafka
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.

I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.

Khaled Hosseini
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Arthur Rimbaud
There's gonna be times when people tell you that you can't live your dreams, this is what I tell them, Never Say Never.

There's gonna be times when people tell you that you can't live your dreams, this is what I tell them, Never Say Never.

Justin Bieber

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

Leonard Bernstein
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

Sylvia Plath
Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

Ray Charles
We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

Donald Trump
In dreams begin responsibilities.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

W B Yeats
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

Cornelia Funke
I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

Rainer Maria Rilke
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

Erich Maria Remarque
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco
He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

Virginia Woolf
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of difficulty. What is true success in life? True success means winning in your battle with yourself. Those who persist in the pursuit of their dreams, no matter what the hurdles, are winners in life, for they have won over their weaknesses.

Daisaku Ikeda
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.

Virginia Woolf
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

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

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

Muhammad Ali
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.

Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that can not fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.

Britney Spears
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

Italo Calvino
When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Marilyn Manson
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

Oprah Winfrey
Everyone has ocean's to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

Everyone has ocean's to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

Amelia Earhart
And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Nora Ephron
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

Franz Kafka
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Marcus Aurelius
I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams.

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

W B Yeats
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Joseph Heller
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Bill Gates
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, 
Now I wash the gum from your eyes, 
You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

Walt Whitman
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.

Bram Stoker
There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

George Carlin
If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown
It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.

It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

James Patterson
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

Arthur Rimbaud
There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

Miley Cyrus
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Frida Kahlo
In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

Pablo Neruda
We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Albert Camus
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

Jack Kerouac
There are things of which I may not speak;
There are dreams that cannot die;
There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak,
And bring a pallor into the cheek,
And a mist before the eye.

There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Virginia Woolf
Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

Truman Capote
I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Bob Dylan
Her feelings she hides
Her dreams she can't find
She's losing her mind
She's falling behind
She can't find her place
She's losing her faith
She's falling from grace
She's all over the place

Her feelings she hides Her dreams she can't find She's losing her mind She's falling behind She can't find her place She's losing her faith She's falling from grace She's all over the place

Avril Lavigne
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe
There’s something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.

There’s something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.

T. D. Jakes