Norman Cousins Quotes

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

If you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

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

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

We live because of the dreams.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Don't give up your dreams.

America is hungry for people who believe in something.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

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?

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation.

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

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

I've got heaps of dreams.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

We're all dreamers.

President Obama's election has taught us to stop being paralyzed by excuses and given us a floodgate of hope. I'm more daring and going after things that I once thought were not possible.