Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danny Murphy

When I think of Irish, I think of hardworking people. Irish make the American dream come true.

We dream of a province where the values of co-operation and caring, optimism and hope are the foundation of an unbreakable social fabric,

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Representing the U.S. in the Olympics is a dream come true, you're wearing the U.S. jersey, and that's who you play for, you don't play for the name on the back of the jersey, you play for the name on the front of the jersey.

Jean Chretien

Pierre Trudeau, the embodiment of the dream of a just society, has left us,

Leroy Chiao

We think Mars exploration is in our future. It may be a little ways out there possibly but that's the whole essence of being human is that we'd like to explore and Mars is something we have dreamed about and set our sights on.

William Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made on.

William Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Ronald Reagan

We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. (January 20, 1981)

Grace Paley

Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

Joanne Harris

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

Joanne Harris

In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.

Joanne Harris

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

Jo Koy

Just keep following your damn dreams, it just costs a lot of damn money. I'm broke, but I have a dream.

Jimmy Carter

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, ... It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

Jimmy Carter

Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.

John Cage

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

John C. Maxwell

People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

John C. Maxwell

When contemplating the pursuit of a dream or the start of a new venture, too many people are hesitant to begin because they can't comprehend the entire journey. If that's where you find yourself right now, don't expect to understand what it takes to get to the top. Just take the next step. There's no shame in starting small; in fact, if you don't start small, you'll probably never start at all.

John C. Maxwell

When the dream is right for the person and the person is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other.

John C. Maxwell

A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

John C. Maxwell

Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.

John C. Maxwell

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

John C. Maxwell

Dreams don't work unless you do

John C. Maxwell

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

John C. Maxwell

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

John C. Maxwell

Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!

John C. Maxwell

We have to pilot our own dreams - we cannot entrust them to anyone else.

John C. Maxwell

A nightmare is a big dream....with a bad team.

John C. Maxwell

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

Adam Hall

The last minute like that, that's the kind of goal everybody dreams about.

The last four years have been great. It's a lot of coaches' dreams to be at the state tournament, and it was a dream for me. But these are super, super kids. It's hard to let them go.

James Truslow Adams

The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.