"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."

Shakespeare, William on ambition
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"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."

Gaulle, Charles De on glory
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"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."

Schuller, Robert H. on impossibility
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"Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on life   

"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me."

Garrison, Zina on attitude
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"Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream."

Brown, Les on books - reading
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"Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."

Wilde, Oscar on action
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"Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them."

Unknown, Source on commitment   

"Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality."

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

Bombeck, Erma on courage
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"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."

Carnegie, Dale on courage
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"There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."

Dean, James on dream
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"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"

Ellis, Havelock on dream
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"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Jefferson, Thomas on dream
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"One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on dream   

"To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!"

Montapert, Alfred A. on dream
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"If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed."

Unknown, Source on dream
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"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

Updike, John on dream   

"Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead."

Valvano, Jim on dream   

"When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether."

Anderson, Marian on imagination
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"The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream."

Johnson, John on success   

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

Froude, James A. on character
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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

Disney, Walt on courage
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"Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity."

Feuerbach, Ludwig on religion   

"Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission."

Kendall, Neil on dream
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness."

Hazlitt, William on acting and actors   

"The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]"

Shakespeare, William on art
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"Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on preparation
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"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."

Brown, Les on responsibility
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"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."

Mumford, Lewis on vision   

"He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone."

Allen, Fred A. on dream
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"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities."

Braden, Vic on dream
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"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them."

Ray, Man on dream
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"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."

Unknown, Source on dream
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"His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out."

Unknown, Source on dream
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"Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control."

Weinstock, Lord on dream   

"I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty."

Hooper, Ellen Sturgis on duty   

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

Madonna on freedom