dreams on The American Dream

The term “American Dream” was first used by James Truslow Adams in 1931 in his book The Epic of America. There he described it as “a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be abl...

The thrust of the parables is to subvert the distorted myths in which people live their lives. To understand what we mean by “living in a myth” just think of a couple of our own contemporary myths. Ta...

USA Today published a report in 2014 that put a price tag on the American Dream: $130,000 a year, which includes a nice six-figure salary, luxury vacations, college savings, and retirement.

The dream so profoundly called for by Martin Luther King Jr. was not the American dream but a longing for the kingdom of God.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this...

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Most of us in the United States know the famous “I have a Dream” speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the 1963 March on Washington. On a sweltering, humid day in the n...

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

When we were young, we said, ‘This is what I am going to do with my life.’ When we grew old, we said, ‘What happened to the dream?’

“We walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.”

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.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

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

When we’re chasing our dreams, all the turbulence we face shouldn’t scare us into pulling back, though. The shaking, jerking, and rattling in our lives are telling us we’re getting close to the breakt...

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

In his book The Case for Grace , pastor and author Lee Strobel describes a dream he had as a child after having a significant argument with his father. Strobel does what most of us would do at that...

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capt...

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

It is not objects that people really desire, but their lush coating of images and dreams. . . . It is never the object which is consumed—instead it is the relationship between us and the object of des...

I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. Ther...

You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”