Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Dream and you shall become.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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.

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.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

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

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

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

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

I don't use tools to create things, but I use them to realize things.

It's just crazy to have a dream - have a plan - and then it all just kind of comes true. To me, that proves that you have to have a vision first.

I really believe in dreaming and making things from nothing.

If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.

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

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.

Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.