Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.
Dreams Quotes
The word covers two things, the dreams you have asleep and the ones you have about your future, and this page leans towards the first. Shakespeare has by far the most entries, followed by Tennyson, Yeats and Pessoa. If you came for motivational lines about chasing your goals, you will find fewer of those than you might expect.
What you do find is better sourced than most. Dostoyevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) is here, and so is Wittgenstein in Culture and Value (1980): “Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.” The line “When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness” is credited to Tecumseh and is marked disputed.
What sweet, what happy days had I,
When dreams made Time Eternity!
Glories
Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams,
And shadows soon decaying.
All those large dreams by which men long live well
Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.
Be prepared to personally invest in your dreams, no matter how gifted you are.
In Egypt, all dreams can come true; it needs patience, perseverance, and partnership.
Dear entrepreneur, believe in your dreams and discredit anyone who tries to convince you otherwise.
Put in the work and the time. Believe in your dreams, trust in God and don’t forget to pray