You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.

 A dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

A dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character;

A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few;

This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream – a dream yet unfulfilled.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

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.

Hope is a waking dream.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. 

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Life has a tendency to just happen. But it happens because we make choices. The life you create and design for yourself is going to accumulate from the choices you make over time. Sure, there are unexpected things that can derail dreams. But we can control where we put our focus, and if we choose to put one dream ahead of another.

We start life with many big dreams–things we want to accomplish, create, build and experience. But if you ask anyone past the age of 40 what happened to all the dreams they had, they will most likely answer; Life.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.