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101 Vision and
Dream Quotes
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1. Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what
has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
Anthony Robbins
American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
2. To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will
become what your vision is.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
American Businessman, Founder of Blockbuster Video
3. I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true
vision.
Elton John
British Musician, Singer, Songwriter
4. Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration.
Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.
Stephen S. Wise
5. Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when
each was asked what the job was, the answers varied. ''Breaking rocks,'' the first replied.
''Earning my living,'' the second said. ''Helping to build a cathedral,'' said the third.
Peter Schultz
German Businessman, CEO of Porsche
6. We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to
enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of
yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.
Orison Swett Marden
American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
7. The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.
Will Smith
8. Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
Jon Bon Jovi
9. Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
George Lucas STAR WARS creator

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10. So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
11. Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous
array of the world's ills ‐‐ against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence.
Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the
work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general
extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman
reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the
New World, and 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created
equal. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes, ‘and I will move the world.’ These
men moved the world, and so can we all.
Robert F. Kennedy
12. Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and
expectation.
Jack Nicklaus
13. I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares
because of my dreams.
Jonas Salk
14. Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
15. Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the
only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.
John Lennon
16. No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No
government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree
to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson

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17. The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never
die.
Edward Kennedy
18. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us,
and the world will live as one.
John Lennon
19. A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the
power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Lauren
20. The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the
impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
21. The road to success is always under construction.
Arnold Palmer
22. Give a girl the correct footware and she can conquer the world.
Bette Midler
23. Every year's a souvenir.
Billy Joel
24. In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself.
Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates
25. There is no point at which you can say; "Well, I'm successful now, I might as well take a
nap."
Carrie Fisher
26. The roughest road often leads to the top.
Christina Aguilera
27. You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt

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28. In the Midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra
29. As long as you're going to think anyway, think big.
Donald Trump
30. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those
who matter don't mind.
Dr. Suess
31. Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
32. Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to
suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
Gail Sheehy
33. The past is history, The future is a mystery, Today is a present.
Jim Brooks
34. Always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
35. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
36. I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot . . . when you think about the
consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan
37. Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run
away when you lose.
Nancy Kerrigan
38. Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you need is someone who will take
the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
39. To live will be an awfully big adventure. (in the movie "Hook")
Robin Williams

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40. Beginnings are usually scary, ending are usually sad, but it is what is in between that really
counts! ‐‐ "Hope Floats"
Sandra Bullock
41. The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton
42. Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just got to bite
a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown, I'll go crazy! But then I just take a
deep breath and forget about it. That's what is known as real maturity.
Snoopy
43. We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each
other everywhere.
Tim Mcgraw
44. Self‐love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting
all of yourself. You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it
goin' on.
Tyra Banks
45. Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not.
Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within
you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy
46. Some people say I have attitude ‐ maybe I do . . . but I think you have to. You have to
believe in yourself when no one else does ‐ that makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams
47. Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your
place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you
want to live.
Mae C. Jemison, first African‐American woman astronaut
48. Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna‐‐or it can
smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters, THE VIEW
49. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth
demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy, American journalist

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50. Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge
that one day someone might do the same for you.
Diana of Wales
51. Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Toni Morrison, author of "Beloved", first African‐American to win the Nobel Prize for
Literature
52. Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence
you desire to have.
Brian Tracy
53. Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe
54. Never dull your shine for somebody else.
Tyra Banks
55. Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown
56. "It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Marianne Williamson
57. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
Meryl Streep
58. People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life
threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to
the human spirit and it's ‐‐ we are fragile, but we also are divine.
Sheryl Crow
59. I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.
That's where the fun is.
Donald Trump
60. Your dreams will come true, but you have to make them come true.
Michael Jackson
61. I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
Alanis Morissette

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62. I am a blank slate‐‐therefore I can create anything...
Tobey Maguire
63. A saint is a person who gives of himself without asking for anything in return. That's how
simple it is to be a saint.
Edward James Olmos
64. Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos
65. I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.
Cher
66. Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body
and spirit.
Jennifer Lopez
67. We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.
Alicia Keys
68. There are no rules. Just follow your heart.
Robin Williams
69. You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky
70. When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world
opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon
71. Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
Bruce Springsteen
72. Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin.
Gwyneth Paltrow
73. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
74. It doesn't matter if you win by a second or a mile, winning is winning!
Vin Diesel

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75. I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
Sean Penn
76. There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're
welcome at this table.'
Tom Hanks
77. Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T
78. True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist; nor can it be hidden where it
does.
David Schwimmer
79. Love to me is someone telling me, 'I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you
needed me to I'd jump out of a plane for you.'
Jennifer Lopez
80. When you are in love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.
Dr Seuss
81. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It
turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a
feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
82. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the
spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Dennis Waitley
83. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an
honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a
life around.
Leo Buscaglia
84. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
85. What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Ellen Burstyn
86. Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams.
Cheryl Richardson

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87. All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.
CHER
88. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our
treasures.
Thornton Wilder
89. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to
utter words, but to live by them.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
90. Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
91. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice
compassion.
Dalai Lama
92. You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able
to repay you.
John Wooden
93. Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost
something.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
94. Open your heart ‐ open it wide; someone is standing outside.
Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit
95. None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
96. I’ve found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more
love.
Mother Teresa
97. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Dr. Seuss
98. It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

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99. I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Tracy Chapman
100. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You
need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou
101. Happiness isn't getting what you want; it's wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks
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