Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I want to convey how beautiful it is to close your eyes and dream. And then to open them and make that dream a reality.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

We're all dreamers.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

We don't teach our children how to dream.

Everybody's a dreamer.

We all possess the need to dream.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.

I think we need to dream.

I was a dreamer, and I still am one.

It's good to dream, and I was born a dreamer.

I believe in dreaming.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

A dream shouldn't be measured by its size or scope, nor by the age or the experience of the dreamer, but rather by the passion, integrity and commitment of that dreamer to follow his or her heart

Be willing to dream, and imagine yourself becoming all that you wish to be. Keep in mind the basic axiom -- all that now exists was once imagined. It follows then that what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined.

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

Our dreams make us large.

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.