Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

Og Mandino

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

Og Mandino

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Og Mandino

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Og Mandino

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead...

Northrop Frye

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

Oscar Arias

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.

Oscar de la Renta

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

Orson Welles

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Orhan Pamuk

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

Orhan Pamuk

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

Orhan Pamuk

We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.

Orison Swett Marden

Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

Orison Swett Marden

There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.

Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers.

Oliver Sacks

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

Oliver Sacks

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. [...] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

Olga Kurylenko

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

Olga Kurylenko

Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

Olive Schreiner

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Nydia Velazquez

Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

Octavia Spencer

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Octavio Paz

Deserve your dream.

Ntozake Shange

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Michael Bruce

Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.

Michael C. Hall

I have this dream where Little Chino keeps showing up at my door. I would have to kill him even though I was at home trying to have a nice meal with my family. Every time he (Chino) would come to the door, I'm like, 'you again!' But I was myself (not Dexter) in the dream. I'm rolling my eyes in the dream because it is so absurd. It was like, this is ridiculous because you (Chino) are not even real!

Michael Buble

I can't sit and compare my trouble to Brian Wilson but I came from a blue-collar family of fishermen. Music was an escape and a way for me to dream of better things and a better place to be. Let's just say I was an insecure, scared kid.

Michael Buble

It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record [Call Me Irresponsible] is about.

Merle Shain

The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don't believe in it for long.

Merle Shain

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Masashi Kishimoto

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.