“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs
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100 Dream Quotes
A short introduction
Dream quotes can float. The useful ones have gravity. They talk about wanting a life that is not yet visible, and then they mention work, delay, and the people who said no.
Here are a hundred lines about ambition, hope, and the future tense. Some are famous. Some are simply clear. We favored authors you can name, not anonymous internet poetry.
If you are holding a dream that embarrasses you a little, you are probably close to the real thing. Read until a sentence makes the next step obvious — an application, a practice, a conversation.
Put that sentence on a poster if you want. FOURQuoteDesigns designs four. Keep the credit. Then do the unglamorous hour.
Dreams need sleep and they need labor. These quotes are for the labor.
If you are holding a hope that embarrasses you a little, you are probably close to the real thing. Find a sentence that makes the next step obvious — an application, an hour of practice, a conversation. Put it on a poster if you want. Four designs. Keep the credit. Then do the unglamorous hour.
100 quotes
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
Steve Jobs
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.”
Nelson Mandela
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
Walt Disney
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
John Muir
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
Rumi
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men.”
Muhammad Ali
“Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.”
Muhammad Ali
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
Michael Jordan
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.”
Jim Rohn
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
Tony Robbins
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
Tony Robbins
“You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
Bill Gates
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
“We're here to put a dent in the universe.”
Steve Jobs
“We needed to be bold and ambitious.”
Satya Nadella
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Peter Drucker
“The entrepreneurs I know are driven by a passion to build something that matters.”
Reid Hoffman
“An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.”
Reid Hoffman
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
John D. Rockefeller
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Oprah Winfrey
“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
Bruce Lee
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
Frida Kahlo
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by.”
Robert Frost
“Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.”
E. E. Cummings
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in.”
David Frost
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Steve Jobs
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
Henry Ford
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“Never give in — never, never, never, never.”
Winston Churchill
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
“Keep moving forward.”
Walt Disney
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
Muhammad Ali
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
Muhammad Ali
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Muhammad Ali
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
Muhammad Ali
“Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Muhammad Ali
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
Muhammad Ali
“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”
Muhammad Ali
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Muhammad Ali
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
Vince Lombardi
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
Vince Lombardi
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Rohn
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
William Butler Yeats
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
Orison Swett Marden
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day.”
Rumi
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
Bruce Lee
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
Muhammad Ali
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
Wayne Gretzky
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They are lines about hopes and future work — the life you want and the courage to aim at it. The better ones mention effort, not only wishing.