Daniel Burnham Quotes

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Make no small plans.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness

I'd like to be remembered as the greatest ever.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

There's nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That's the fun part. You may come up short. I've come up short on a lot on my goals, but it's always fun to try and achieve them.

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough !

I'm going to be as big as Sinatra.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me, I'll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I'll be living a beautiful life.