100+ Inspirational Quotes About Dreaming Big to Ignite Your Ambition

"No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

- Napoleon Hill

"The more you can dream, the more you can do."

- Michael Korda

"Dream big dreams; only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The world needs dreamers, and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."

- Belva Davis

"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

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"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

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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 biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."

- James Broughton

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

- Christopher Reeve

"If you have the ability to imagine it, you have the ability to achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

- William Arthur Ward

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

- William Arthur Ward

"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

"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

"If you try to guard yourself against every unlikely danger, you’ll never stretch beyond your comfort zone. Don’t let the ‘what-ifs’ run your life. Follow your dreams and have at it."

- Diane Conway

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Earl Nightingale

"When you have a dream you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Dream big enough to scare you. You're going to get to someplace you might not have imagined yourself getting to."

- Linda Thomas-Greenfield

"My message has always been 'dream big and aim higher.'"

- Coco Gauff

"Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!"

- Bruce Wilkinson

"I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the things that I've accomplished, I never thought in a million years that I would be here. So it just proves that once you believe in yourself, and you put your mind to something, you can do it."

- Simone Biles

"Always dream big, and don't let anyone limit your dreams because the possibilities are endless."

- Coco Gauff

"Life is short, live bold! Be heard, be you, dream big, take risks, don’t wait."

- Misty Gibbs

"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"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

"Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what’s right before you decide what’s possible."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

- Steve Jobs

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."

- Colin Powell

"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them."

- Michelle Obama

"I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true."

- Walt Disney

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Dream as if you’ll live forever… live as if you’ll die today."

- James Dean

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

- Albert Einstein

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

- Jesse Owens

"Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions."

- Jordan Belfort

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart–this you will build your life by, and this you will become."

- James Lane Allen

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focused on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts."

- Dr. Roopleen

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A dream requires a partner: commitment."

- John C. Maxwell

"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."

- Albert Einstein

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."

- Ben Stein

"To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is."

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"You are never too old to be what you might have been."

- George Elliot

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future."

- Joseph Campbell

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you 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

"If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking."

- Steve Jobs

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow."

- Paulo Coelho

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Everyone has a dream, so why not dream big — it just might happen!"

- Patrick Witz

"A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position."

- John C. Maxwell

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."

- Tupac Shakur

"Make a contribution; that’s one way to dare to dream big. Make a promise and then take action to fulfill your promise; that’s what your life is about."

- Marcia Wieder

"It doesn’t matter if we think we’re fearless or if we do things while quaking. The important thing is to be true to our own dreams and live authentic lives."

- Diane Conway

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."

- Victor Hugo

"Nurture your Dream every day. A strong dream will empower you to make bold decisions and allow you to follow your heart."

- Manoj Arora

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them."

- Josie Bisse

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Dr. Dale E. Turner

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Capture your dreams and your life becomes full. You can, because you think you can."

- Nikita Koloff

"Dream and give yourself permission to envision a you that you choose to be."

- Joy Page

"If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs."

- Tony Gaskins

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."

- Les Brown

"Put the past to rest; look forward; dream big dreams; go for the gold."

- Jean Lush

"When you cease to dream, you cease to live."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"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

"Dream big and keep your dreams for yourself. Because the dreams that you have are those things that separate you from others. If you give up your dream, you give up hope. And without hope, you are nothing."

- Tiger Woods

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

- Paulo Coelho

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place."

- Nelson Mandela

"Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals."

- W. Clement Stone

"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

- Mae Jemison

"Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude – your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are."

- Napoleon Hill

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t be limited by what has been. Be inspired knowing that what could be is far greater than your wildest dreams."

- Cheryl Richardson

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray

"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it come true. You will have to work for it, however."

- Richard Bach

"Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible."

- Frank Gaines

"Action is what converts human dreams into significance."

- John c. maxwell

"I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them."

- Steve Jobs

"When you live each day with intentionality, there’s almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation."

- John C. Maxwell

"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."

- W. Clement Stone

"If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality."

- Dr. Roopleen

"The idea is to seek a vision that gives you purpose in life and then to implement that vision. The vision by itself is one half, one part, of a process. It implies the necessity of living that vision, otherwise the vision will sink back into itself."

- Lewis P. Johnson

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

- Muhammad Ali

"Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don’t gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go."

- John C. Maxwell

"A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there."

- Walt Disney

"The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"Nobody starts off as a hero, that does not happen even in films. It is passion, hard work, and perseverance that makes the difference. Dream big, follow your passion and work hard towards fulfilling it and it will pay well."

- Rakshit Shetty

"Dream big, anything's possible once you have that dream. You just have to work at it every single day."

- Gordon Hayward

"All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it."

- Kapil Dev

"Just dream big. Anything is possible."

- Kelita Zupancic

"All you need is heart, work ethic, and to dream big."

- Kylie Bunbury

"I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger."

- Howard Schultz

"You always have to dream big and think big."

- Fabio Cannavaro

"I tell aspiring young skaters to dream big, work hard, have fun, and follow their passion. It's simple to say never give up, but learn from your mistakes to keep growing."

- Michelle Kwan

"Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something."

- Peter Diamandis

"In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure."

- Naveen Jain

"You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big."

- Ksenia Solo

"My goal is to show young women and girls that our voices and ideas matter, and you are never too young to dream big!"

- Marsai Martin

"Although she was not a politician, my grandmother gave me the most important lesson I've ever received and one I carry with me today. That all you need to be successful in life is three things: your wishbone to dream big, your jawbone to speak the truth, and your backbone to persevere through it all."

- Nina Turner

"You have got to dream big."

- Kasper Schmeichel

"I love that I dream big and go after my dreams with all I've got to give."

- Asia Kate Dillon

"It doesn't matter who you are - if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that's really good for the nation."

- Sunil Chhetri

"I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your background is."

- Misty Copeland

"I'm a big dreamer. You might as well go to the top. You want to dream big, you dream big."

- Harry Kewell

"I dream big. I think big. I try to go out and do it as big as I can."

- Chad Kelly

"Dream big work hard."

- Sheryl Swoopes

"Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back."

- Deirdre O'Kane

"Just dream big. Go for it. There's nothing holding you back. You can have ups and downs, but if you believe in something, keep the faith; keep fighting. And don't let people put you down."

- Geraint Thomas

"Dream big and anything is possible."

- DeMarcus Cousins

"I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'"

- Jorge Paulo Lemann

"Don't hold on to the past; it won't help in moving forward. Dare to dream big."

- Rajeev Suri

"We think big and we dream big."

- Huda Kattan

"People say 'dream big,' that's kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it."

- Jim Nantz

"I want to become as big as my dreams are."

- Shivangi Lavaniya

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

- Jonathan Swift

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."

- Japanese proverb

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible."

- H. Robert Schuller

"You can often measure a person by the size of his dream."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Bravery and adventure! That’s the ticket! Don’t sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing."

- Garrison Keillor

"Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be."

- Joy Page

"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

"Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life."

- Leo Buscaglia

"I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams."

- Jonas Salk

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing–where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do."

- Phillips Brooks

"You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It’s by taking chances that you’ll learn how to be brave."

- Nikita Koloff

"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable."

- Christopher Reeve

"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."

- Florence Scovel Shinn

"If everyone woke up tomorrow morning and said, ‘It’s possible; whatever it is, it’s possible,’ and spent a whole day having an ‘it’s possible’ day, then we would be going down the kind of road I’m interested in–because I do believe it is possible."

- John Bird

"It must be born in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity to not dream."

- Helmut Schmidt

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

"There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, ‘Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course, I’ve got dreams.’ Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they’re still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, ‘How good or how bad am I?’ That’s where courage comes in."

- Erma Bombeck

"Your aspirations are your possibilities."

- Samuel Johnson

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind."

- Bernard M. Baruch

"Capture your dreams, and your life becomes full. You can because you think you can."

- Nikita Koloff

"Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true."

- T. E. Lawrence

"I see myself living a life where I am not bound by the opinions others have of me, one where I no longer concern myself with the judgments of others, one in which I believe in myself and my talents, skills, and capabilities."

- Michael Rawls

"If you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?"

- Jiminy Cricket

"Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself."

- Dr. Laura Schlessinger

"The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!"

- Shannon L. Alder

"There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you — just reach deep into yourself!"

- Terri Guillemets

"Welcome to reality! Our time is limited. We might as well get on with it; so why not choose now to live the life of our dreams?"

- Seth David Chernoff

"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world because the world needs everyone’s gift — yours and mine."

- Barbara Sher

"Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit, the way will open for you to do more."

- Robert Collier

"The dream is not the destination but the journey."

- Diane Sawyer

"When I dream, I dream big."

- Bianca Balti

"It's okay to dream big."

- Jason Day

"When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been."

- Patch Adams

"Dream big and be disruptive. If you are doing the same thing as everyone else, you've already failed."

- Kendra Scott

"We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here."

- Susan Taylor

"If you do what you've always done, you just get more of what you have always had. We've now got to dream big and act bold."

- Tim Griffin

"Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in."

- Robert Brault

"The impossible is often the untried."

- Jim Goodwin

"I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company."

- Denise Morrison

"A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards."

- Jim Hunt

"For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer."

- Tommy Caldwell

"Dream big, but don't be upset if it doesn't happen."

- Mikaela Shiffrin

"There is no straight line to a dream."

- Jack Welch

"This one step. Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything."

- Scott Reed

"One of Giants of Africa's fundamental mottos is - Dream Big. We believe that basketball can be used as a tool to educate and develop youth around the world to accomplish their dreams."

- Masai Ujiri

"Your world is as big as you make it."

- Georgia Douglas Johnson

"When it is darkest, men see the stars."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know."

- Adora Svitak

"Dream big!"

- Josh Ryan Evans

"It is so gratifying to hear from people who look up to you and see you in these places that they never thought they could ever dream to be. It's emotional. You really feel like you're opening up people's minds, who otherwise thought that they couldn't dream big. That's such a huge opportunity. It's such a gift."

- Julia Jones

"I want people to dream big."

- Jagmeet Singh

"All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

- Yoko Ono

"When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan, flourish, and always remember why you started."

- Germany Kent

"That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed."

- Neil Gaiman

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

- Pablo Picasso

"Momentum builds success."

- Suzy Kassem

"Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big."

- Peter Diamandis

"Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution."

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world."

- Joan Chittister

"It is faith that builds the staircase to your dreams."

- Suzy Kassem

"I dream, therefore I become."

- Cheryl Grossman

"Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment."

- Carlos Wallace

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."

- Thucydides

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

- Thomas Jefferson

"In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality."

- Kristian Kan

"Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream."

- Peter McWilliams

"Your dream is your decision, Your destiny is your decision."

- Abhijit Naskar

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"In dreams, you will find the truth. In dreams, you will find a way."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams."

- Jeremy Irons

"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If reality can destroy dreams, then dreams can destroy reality."

- Conway Stone

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"The shell must break before the bird can fly."

- Alfred Tennyson

"Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big."

- Jenna Bush

"I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives."

- Peter Diamandis

"My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree."

- Jennifer Hyman

"My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams."

- Richard Simmons

"I grew up in a good family with good parents, and I was able to dream big and have the support to live it out."

- Liam Hemsworth

"It's always good to dream big, right?"

- Eric Nam

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

- William Faulkner

"I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."

- Emily Bronte

"Sometimes I feel like I don't dream big enough."

- John Cho

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Inside each of us are thoughts and beliefs that hinder our dreams from coming true."

- Conway Stone

"Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead."

- Chuck Schumer

"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."

- James Michener

"I'm a 'blue sky thinker' and dream big."

- Hilary Knight

"Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste."

- Charles Best

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

- Langston Hughes

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"Dreams are free, so free your dreams."

- Terri Guillemets

"It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God’s greatest gifts are given."

- Wintley Phipps

"When you are married to a guy who takes chances every day, who loves risk and has great intuition and great business instincts - when you're married to someone like that who pushes you to dream big, you dream big."

- Joanna Gaines

"Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta."

- Herschel Walker

"Of course I always dream big, but I don't put a plan out for myself."

- Christian Pulisic

"People say, 'Dream big!' - but you have to think about the logistics. It's not just coming up with a great idea; it's how you can sell or market or promote that great idea."

- Marley Dias

"Trust your hunches…. Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

- Joyce Brothers

"If one feels the need for something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not."

- Dr. Seuss

"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on its own wings. Always believe in yourself."

"Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome."

"No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big."

"It’s better to have an impossible dream than no dream at all."