Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

If you know it's going to happen there's no need to call it a dream.

If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

Everything is but a dream within a dream.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I' That's where courage comes in.

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

We live as we dream

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

All men of action are dreamers.

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems.

We live, as we dream, alone

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?;"Neil Gaiman, 'Sandman: Dream County'

The one without dreams is the one without wings Muhammad Ali

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

This one's for the girls Who've ever had a broken heart Who've wished upon a shooting star You're beautiful the way you are This one's for the girls Who love without holding back Who dream with everything they have¢¾

Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says 'It's a girl.'

Dreams are necessary to life.

The term 'learning disability' has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.