Diana Nyad Quotes

I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.' That's my purpose.

I realized that my purpose really is to inspire people.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

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.

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.

We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it's scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.

If you ask a kid what their dreams are, they will give you a list that is as long as I am tall. Once you get older that list gets shorter and shorter, so dreams shrink. I think dreams should grow as you get older.

I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.

I feel so blessed to get to live out my dreams, and I want to help others live theirs.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.