Understand: we are all too afraid – of offending people, of stirring up conflict, of standing out from the crowd, of taking bold action. Robert Greene

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower

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 

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.--James Allen 

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.--Anais Nin 

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.--John Lennon 

Dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trails and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the visions of their solitary dreamers.--James Allen 

The Dreamers Prayer: Lord, maker of desires and dreams, hold me close to the heart of thy spirit so that by the grace of thy almighty hand I will be able to fulfill the reason you placed me here on this earth by following and accomplishing my dreams.--Conway Stone 

Dreaming is not an accident. It is not a wistful idea you hope will come true. Dreaming is not the stuff of long-haired hippies wistfully running along a beach. No! Dreaming is a sophisticated tool used by the elite of our society to make themselves and this world a better place. People like Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, Warren Buffet, Col. Sanders and Walt Disney all started with a dream. The dreams started small, but like the trickle of water that eventually formed the great Grand Canyon, Dreams are powerful!--Conway Stone 

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) 

Enough! It's time to grow up. If we want to play adult games--living our Dream--we must play by adult rules. One of the primary adult rules: We are individually responsible for our own lives.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.--Douglas Pagels 

Every dreamer works in violent disagreement with their times.--Conway Stone 

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 

The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream.--Marilyn Harris 

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.--Louisa May Alcott

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale

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

If you give up on your dreams, what’s left? Jim Carrey

Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits. Robin Sharma

Yesterday’s dreams are often tomorrow’s realities. Bruce Lee

If you’ve never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. Adam Duritz

We’re told that the American dream will bring you happiness, and it will not. I think a lot of us learn as we get older that happiness is internal. Happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. Naval Ravikant

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it. Gary Keller (The ONE Thing)

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

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein

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

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’ George Bernard Shaw

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one. John Lennon

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley

It was all a dream. The Notorious B.I.G.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. Vincent van Gogh

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau

Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will? Jon Bon Jovi

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

No one is perfect—that’s why pencils have erasers.” – Wolfgang Rieb

Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.” – Christopher Reeve

Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself.” – Betsey Johnson

Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” – Anne Frank

There is nothing impossible for those who will try.” – Alexander the Great

Each morning, when I open my eyes, I say to myself,0’ I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy.’” – Groucho Marx

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.” – Les Brown

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin

I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right.” Billy Graham

It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.” Billy Graham

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.” Billy Graham

God proved his love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’” Billy Graham

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?” Billy Graham

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.” Billy Graham

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.” Billy Graham

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.” Billy Graham

We are the Bibles the world is reading; we are the creeds the world is needing; we are the sermons the world is heeding.” Billy Graham