60+ Dream and Hope Quotes to Inspire Positivity and Empower Your Journey
Dream and hope are the twin forces that inspire us to envision a better future and work toward it. Dreams ignite our imagination, showing us what is possible, while hope provides the strength to believe and persevere through challenges. Together, they fuel ambition and resilience, reminding us that every great achievement begins with a dream and is sustained by hope. They connect us to purpose, guide us through adversity, and light the way to a life filled with meaning and possibility.
- “Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
- “A leader is a dealer in hope.”
- “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
- “The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”
- “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
- “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
- “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
- “Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
- “Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
- “Hope is a waking dream.”
- “How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
- “We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
- “The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
- “Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!”
- “Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
- “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
- “Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
- “Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
- “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
- “The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.”
- “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
- “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
- “The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”
- “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
- “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
- “Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”
- “We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.”
- “Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”
- “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
- “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
- “The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.”
- “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.”
- “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
- “They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
- “Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
- “Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.”
- “It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.”
- “Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.”
- “We stand today on the edge of a new frontier – the frontier of the 1960’s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.”
- “Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”
- “The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
- “The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
- “To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”
- “A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”
- “It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.”
- “War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.”
- “Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.”
- “Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.”
- “Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.”
- “If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.”
- “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”
- “I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.”
- “I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
- “I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.”
- “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
- “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
- “Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?”
- “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
- “You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.”
- “What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”
- “Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.”