Quotes on I Had A Dream

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

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.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you can give them ideas and opportunities and I'd like to try to inspire all the young kids because I had a dream when I was young, that was to play for Australia.

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The night before I had to show something to my client I had a dream, an interesting dream. I woke up and for once in my life I wrote it down and went back to sleep Next morning I went to the office and had that dream out into a TV commercial which is still running thirty years after and which has made that particular product the leader in its field.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.