Dreamer Quotes - Page 17

• My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

  Alan King

  Father, Smart, Hero

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• Tomorrow is for losers and dreamers

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Tomorrow, Loser

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• Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

  Jon Meacham

  Leader, Dogma, Influence

  Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.20, Random House

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• The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.

  Che Guevara

  America, Saving, Tradition

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• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Trying, World

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• Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Dream, Stories, Made

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.137, Macmillan

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• God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

  Bo Sanchez

  Dream, Priorities, Development

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• If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!

  Mark Gorman

  Dream, Want, Clue

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• The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.

  Paul Hawken

  Running, Night, Sight

  Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Beautiful, Sleep, White

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.176, Serpent's Tail

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• Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

  Chris Gardner

  Wind, Differences, Shining

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• 'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.

  Vanna Bonta

  Dream, Realistic, Oxymoron

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• By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Children, Sea

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• "Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dream, Men, Our World

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• This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Actors, Creation

  "General Aspects of Dream Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

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• Back of the job-the dreamer Who's making the dream come true!

  Berton Braley

  Dream, Jobs, Dreams Come True

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• The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dream, Character, Universe

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• Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

  Tennessee Williams

  Dream, Needs, Revolution

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.450, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

  William Carey

  Dream, Expecting, Attempting

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• Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Book, Pieces, Delight

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• I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn't take no for an answer - they're going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don't blame anybody else. And they're dreamers in one sense but they're also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.

  Daymond John

  Responsibility, Thinking, Entrepreneur

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• The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Dream, Noble, Best Things

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• That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.

  Felicia Day

  Mean, Rebel, Hobbies

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• My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

  Lucille Ball

  Children, Husband, Home

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (p. 113), 1996.

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• I was and I still am a dreamer, that made me the person I am today

  Jared Leto

  Today, Made, Persons

  Twitter post from Dec 2, 2014

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