Chase Your Dreams: Inspiring Quotes to Keep You Motivated - Page 8

Unleash your potential with our collection of dream quotes that inspire you to chase your passions and envision a greater future. Page 8 provides more dream quotes.

Image of Tom Waits
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
- Tom Waits
Collection: Dream
Image of Steve Lopez
Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.
- Steve Lopez
Collection: Dream
Image of Michael Ondaatje
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.
- Michael Ondaatje
Collection: Dream
Image of Gurbaksh Chahal
Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it.
- Gurbaksh Chahal
Collection: Dream
Image of Abigail Van Buren
For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
- Abigail Van Buren
Collection: Dream
Image of Rainn Wilson
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.
- Rainn Wilson
Collection: Dream
Image of Louis Sachar
Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.
- Louis Sachar
Collection: Dream
Image of Anna Quindlen
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
- Anna Quindlen
Collection: Dream
Image of Patrick Rothfuss
If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.
- Patrick Rothfuss
Collection: Dream
Image of Larry Crabb
Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story. The Holy Spirit uses the pain of shattered dreams to help us discover our desire for God, to help us begin dreaming the highest dream. They are ordained opportunities for the Spirit to awaken, then to satisfy our highest dream.
- Larry Crabb
Collection: Dream
Image of Larry Crabb
God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts.
- Larry Crabb
Collection: Dream
Image of Bill Richardson
The rocket that goes up next March will not only lift a payload, it will launch what I believe will ultimately be the most significant commercial space facility in the country, ... This launch will be a brilliant signal flare that will let the nation and the world know New Mexico's spaceport is open for business. We can now say with certainty that the dream of this spaceport launching a new era in New Mexico's aerospace industry will become reality.
- Bill Richardson
Collection: Dream
Image of Jane Wagner
You don't know what it's like! Hyperactive twins! When they turned three, my doctor prescribed Ritalin -- I wouldn't dream of giving a drug to my children, but it does help when I take it myself.
- Jane Wagner
Collection: Dream
Image of Kij Johnson
I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?
- Kij Johnson
Collection: Dream
Image of Isobelle Carmody
The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.
- Isobelle Carmody
Collection: Dream
Image of Edwin Morgan
When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.
- Edwin Morgan
Collection: Dream
Image of Reif Larsen
Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge.
- Reif Larsen
Collection: Dream
Image of Alethea Kontis
Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.
- Alethea Kontis
Collection: Dream
Image of Ntozake Shange
our dreams draw blood from old sores.
- Ntozake Shange
Collection: Dream
Image of Bill Walton
There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over. Those three things lead to the fourth pillar which is the hope and dream that tomorrow is going to be better. Without that you have not much at all.
- Bill Walton
Collection: Dream
Image of Ruta Sepetys
My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.
- Ruta Sepetys
Collection: Dream
Image of Tite Kubo
Dispose of everything that was lost. There's no time to dream about something that won't come back. I must look forward. Forward.
- Tite Kubo
Collection: Dream
Image of Steve Toltz
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?
- Steve Toltz
Collection: Dream
Image of Steve Toltz
There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearably boring. I’ll tell you what’s exciting: sweaty, passionate nights. But sitting on the veranda outside the home of a sleeping woman who isn’t dreaming about you is slow moving and just plain sad.
- Steve Toltz
Collection: Dream
Image of Jason Mraz
The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.
- Jason Mraz
Collection: Dream
Image of Jason Mraz
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
Collection: Dream
Image of N.K. Jemisin
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.
- N.K. Jemisin
Collection: Dream
Image of John Travolta
As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.
- John Travolta
Collection: Dream
Image of Nathanael West
No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.
- Nathanael West
Collection: Dream
Image of Nathanael West
Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.
- Nathanael West
Collection: Dream
Image of Sharon Shinn
A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.
- Sharon Shinn
Collection: Dream
Image of Sarah Bernhardt
The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.
- Sarah Bernhardt
Collection: Dream
Image of Siri Hustvedt
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
- Siri Hustvedt
Collection: Dream
Image of Siri Hustvedt
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
- Siri Hustvedt
Collection: Dream
Image of Siri Hustvedt
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.
- Siri Hustvedt
Collection: Dream
Image of Brendon Burchard
Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.
- Brendon Burchard
Collection: Dream
Image of Winston Groom
I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.
- Winston Groom
Collection: Dream
Image of Arthur Miller
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
- Arthur Miller
Collection: Dream
Image of Rod Serling
I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it’s a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.
- Rod Serling
Collection: Dream
Image of Paul Murray
To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you search out this love everyone is always talking about, it is nowhere to be found; and when someone looks for love from you, you find you are not able to give it, you are not able to hold the trust and dreams they want you to hold, any more than you could cradle water in your arms.
- Paul Murray
Collection: Dream
Image of William Nicholson
To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.
- William Nicholson
Collection: Dream
Image of George Sterling
Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)
- George Sterling
Collection: Dream
Image of Grant Morrison
Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?
- Grant Morrison
Collection: Dream
Image of Joko Beck
All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.
- Joko Beck
Collection: Dream
Image of Joko Beck
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.
- Joko Beck
Collection: Dream
Image of Yelawolf
Entangled between a dream and a coma.
- Yelawolf
Collection: Dream
Image of Kent Nerburn
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices in life no more easily made. And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than how is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
- Kent Nerburn
Collection: Dream
Image of Kent Nerburn
That is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.
- Kent Nerburn
Collection: Dream