Even if success seems doubtful, at least you’ll know you went for it and tried walking down that path. The serendipitous adventures the experience creates will be well worth it.
Dreams exist to be seen, heard and contemplated. To give you insights, reassurance, freedom, maybe even some kind of self-reflection — which is why you should never ignore these aspirations.
Here are some inspiring quotes about chasing your dreams from successful entrepreneurs, thinkers and trendsetters to help motivate you to take the plunge into your journey toward creating your dream life.
Quotes About Chasing Your Dreams
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Joyce Brothers
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
Too many people give up on their dreams because they’re unable to see the path ahead, or they never start because the road appears too long, dark, and narrow, so why even try? If a person were to stand at the edge of his or her dreams and contemplate the journey, he or she would never take the first step.
Jake Anderson
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightingale
Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.
Nick Vujicic
You have to chase your dreams, no matter what. The impossible just takes a little longer. One stroke at a time, one step at a time, the impossible is easy to achieve.
Tori Murden
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward
Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.
Walt Disney
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
Peter McWilliams
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was the man’s dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
Francis Ford Coppola
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Charles Buxton
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
Ryunosuke Satoro
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau
Faith is not desire. Faith is will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas will is a force. Will changes the space around us.
Paulo Coelho
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told.
Alan Keightley
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
You see, the human mind is the last, great unexplored continent on Earth. It contains riches beyond our wildest dreams. It will return anything we want to plant.
Earl Nightingale
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
Henry Ford
Never be ashamed There’s some who will hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with.
J. K. Rowling
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.
John Updike
Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
John Wooden
The most important journey of our lives doesn’t necessarily involve climbing the highest peak or trekking around the world. The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
Mary Kay Ash
Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.
Nelson Mandela
Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious, and however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.
Stephen Hawking
Be strategic and resilient in the pursuit of your dreams.
Tiffany D. Jackson
If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Steve Jobs
Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.
Steven Conrad
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
Ray Bradbury
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Your entire life changes the day that you decide you will no longer accept mediocrity for yourself.
Hal Elrod
20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Dreams are illustrations…from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman
When you stop having dreams and ideals — well, you might as well stop altogether.
Marian Anderson
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
To be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes
If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
Edgar Cayce
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Goethe
Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.
Wim Wender
I have lots of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.
Marie Forleo
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.
Harvey Mackay
The only thing worse than starting something and failing…is not starting something.
Seth Godin
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
Michelle Obama
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
Stephen Butler Leacock
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
Roy T. Bennett
Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
John Wooden
I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
Walter Cronkite
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Goethe
As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill
Your better future is a dream for yourself and for your family.
Jim Rohn
Only do what your heart tells you.
Princess Diana
It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Goethe
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
David LaChapelle
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg
If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.
Tony Gaskins
I’ve learned that dreams can be challenging, can sometimes feel intimidating, and are always worth the SUCCESS they can bring.
Darren Hardy
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Barbara Sher
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
Too often we tell ourselves we aren’t smart enough or attractive enough or talented enough to pursue our dreams. We buy into what others say about us, or we put restrictions on ourselves.
Nick Vujicic
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen Leacock
A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.
Maya Angelou
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Everything is hard before it is easy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Final Word
Dreams are powerful things. They can give us hope and motivation when everything seems bleak, or they can be the driving force behind our passions. Whatever your dream may be, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t achieve it. It doesn’t really matter what kind of dream you have, at the end of the road what really matters are your actions and approach toward your dreams.
Remember these inspiring quotes next time you feel like giving up on your dreams, and chase them with all you’ve got! What’s your favorite quote about chasing your dreams? Leave a comment below and share it with everyone. We could all use a little encouragement to go after what we want in life.
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