Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

Better to dream than to be.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

I never promised you a rose garden.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

Still humping the American Dream

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

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

We all got dreams and we all star reaching

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.