Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve

Napoleon Hill

If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

Og Mandino

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

Og Mandino

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Og Mandino

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Og Mandino

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead...

Northrop Frye

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

Oscar Arias

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.

Oscar de la Renta

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

Orson Welles

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Orhan Pamuk

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

Orhan Pamuk

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

Orhan Pamuk

We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.

Orison Swett Marden

Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

Orison Swett Marden

There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.

Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers.

Oliver Sacks

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

Oliver Sacks

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. [...] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

Olga Kurylenko

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

Olga Kurylenko

Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

Olive Schreiner

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Octavia Spencer

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Octavio Paz

Deserve your dream.

Ntozake Shange

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Novak Djokovic

Messi is the best player on the planet and he keeps on improving at Barça, now the best team in the world. What Messi does on and off the pitch is an inspiration for children who dream of becoming a footballer.

Novak Djokovic

I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.

Novak Djokovic

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Novak Djokovic

I want to win and I feel that pressure, but my career will not be a disaster if I do not win there. It is a dream to fulfill.

Novalis

Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.

Novalis

Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.