Tom Clancy Quotes

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.

The Republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change about you, but your dream will not. It will always be your link with the person, young and full of hope. If you hold on to it you may grow old but you will never be old. And that is the ultimate success

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

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.

The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'

You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

Dreams are more powerful than facts.

Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.

If you have a dream don't let anyone talk you out of it.