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 

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.--William Faulkner 

Ask yourself, "How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?" I suggest you answer, "As long as it takes.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine May 27, 2003) 

At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.--Arundhati Roy (The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire) 

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.--Joyce Brothers 

Believe in what you feel inside,
 Give your dreams the wings to fly.
 You have everything you need,
 if you just believe.--Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri ("Believe")

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

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.--Oprah Winfrey 

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books--they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.--Esther Meynell 

Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.--Garrison Keillor (A Christmas Blizzard) 

Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying.--Robert H. Schuller 

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn our dreams into reality.--James Womack 

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.--Belva Davis 

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.--Anonymous 

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes with a sharp stick called truth.--Dan Rather (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true.--Fred Van Amburgh 

The dream is not the destination but the journey.--Diane Sawyer 

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.--Toni Cade Bambara 

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.--Joseph Campbell

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream. Martin Luther King Jr

Think, believe, dream, and dare. Walt Disney

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.--Dale E. Turner 

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.--Henry David Thoreau 

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.-Robert Conklin 

Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.--Josie Bisset 

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.--Sir James M. Barrie 

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.--Steven Callahan 

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.--Roger Von Oech 

Empower your dreams with deadlines.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)