I’m a geeky quote junkie who’s been collecting my favorite quotes in a journal since the mid-90′s (God I’m getting old, that seems like just yesterday). Here’s a collection of 25 chasing your dreams quotes I turn to when I need a little inspiration. I hope you love them as much as I do.
25 chasing your dreams quotes
1. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Unknown
2. “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” -Colette
3. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Unknown
4. “Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are.” -J.C. Hare and A.W. Hare
5. “If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” -Anna Quindlen
6. “I have lots of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.” – Oprah Winfrey
7. “The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” -Ben Stein
8. “When it’s over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement.” -Mary Oliver
9. “If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.” – Oscar Wilde
10. “Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of energy. Most things are out of our control. We are surrounded by danger, frustration, grief, and insanity, as well as love, hope, ectasy, and wonder. Being fully human is an exercise in humility, suffering, grace, and great humor. Things and people all around us die, get broken, or are lost. There is no safety or guarantees.
The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage freely, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.” – SARK
11. “Follow your bliss.” -Joseph Campbell
12. “I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.” -Mary Oliver
13. “There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.” -Rita Dove
14. “Listen– are you breathing just a little, and calling it life?” -Mary Oliver
15. “There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.” -Anne Lamott
16. “You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true to your own “selfish” desires. You have a unique set of precious values that can only be fulfilled by pursuing what drives you the most: your passions and dreams. Could Thomas Edison have tended to the downtrodden as Mother Teresa did? Could Albert Einstein have preached salvation as Martin Luther King Jr. did? Could Abraham Lincoln have built cars like Henry Ford? Always, the masses benefit from the individuals who insist on marching to the beat of their own drummer.” -Mike Dooley
17. “There comes a time when one must risk everything or sit forever with ones dreams.” -Unknown
18. “Figure out what your purpose is in life, what you really and truly want to do with your time and your life; then be willing to sacrifice everything and then some to achieve it. If you are not willing to make the sacrifice, then keep searching.” -Quintina Ragnacci
19. “I have accepted fear as a part of life- specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.” -Erica Jong
20. “You will never find time for anything. You must make it.” -Charles Buxton
21. “How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” -Trina Paulus
22. “You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
23. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” -Epictetus
24. “Once in awhile it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told.” -Alan Keightley
25. “Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.” -Soen Sa Nim
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I’m also a huge Mary Oliver fan!
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Is she great or what? Love her!
I just found this gem today: “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch
Torre (@fearfulgirl) recently posted..Death By Cubicle
Oh, good one Torre. I’m writing it down!
I have two:
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. from The Shawshank Redemption
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Thanks for some new ones!!
Thanks Gillian, two great quotes!
Great quotes Kim.
One of my favourite quotes is: “Never too late, too sick, too old, to start over again.” – Bikram Choudhury
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Lily, I’ve never heard this one before and I love it. Thanks for sharing!!
The one I just put up on m y dream board:
Twenty 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
Ah, that is one of my favorites too.
The one I really love is “Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’” Love nr 17 and the one from Torre as well. Quotes are always a great way to get some motivation and inspiration
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Tijmen, that is a favorite one of mine as well. I 100% believe it. I hate it when people say “I’ll try.” Seriously, if the thing pertains to yourself either you do it or you don’t do it. Period.
Found at the bottom of a really cool travel blog:
“If you always heeded the fears of others,
you’d never end up doing anything different”
- Ewen McGregor
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I love, love, love it! Great quote! Thanks Skott.
Just saw this quote on an email from my yoga studio and thought it was appropriate to share…
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
~Goethe
Great one, love it!
Gotta love a good quote! Here’s one of my faves about chasing your dreams:
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
John Barrymore
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Great one, Kieron! Thanks for sharing.
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Great quotes
my favorite is “There comes a time when one must risk everything or sit forever with ones dreams.” -Unknown 
That is one of my favorites as well. It is one of the things that originally inspired me to follow my dreams of travel!
I’m a quote junkie too! I used to keep them on little post-it notes scattered around my desk and fridge. Then I put them on 3×5 cards, then in a notebook. Now they’re everywhere, but I have started to collect them under Inspiration on my site. (It was ‘Daily Inspiration’ but I wasn’t keeping up.
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I love the tag line of your blog.
best, rc
Thanks Robyn. I have an “inspiration” page on here too with some of my favorite quotes. I also have a “quote book” where I compile them all. I read it all the time.
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