The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality. — Robert Fulton
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. — Edgar Friedenberg
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. — Robert Reich
I am proof that the American dream still exists. — Paula Deen
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream. — Tommy Hilfiger
Pop art is
the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive! — Robert Indiana
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become. — Ronald Reagan
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education. — Alphonso Jackson
Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard. — Serena Williams
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. — Eldridge Cleaver
If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark. — Richard G. Wilkinson
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. — Rick Danko
Short American Dream Quotes
I got a dream that's worth more than my reality. — Big Sean
The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately. — Tyrese Gibson
Live your dream and never wake up — Liam Payne
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. — John Keats
You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. — Zig Ziglar
Top 10 American Dream Quotes
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. — Clark Gable
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams. — Zack de la Rocha
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams. — Sergio Leone
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk
We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have. — John Kasich
I used to respect the United States and the American dream. Now I consider the United States the biggest threat to Internet freedom and peace in the world. — Kim Dotcom
My goal was to become the first African American woman pilot. Nothing could divert me from that goal. — Bessie Coleman
Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.
Gatsby American Dream Quotes
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can! — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Living The American Dream Quotes
To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands. — Paul Robeson
Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must
understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living. — Harvey Milk
The prettiest people do the ugliest things. — Kanye West
Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.
The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives. — Mary Fallin
We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based. — Paolo Soleri
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence. — Margaret Mead
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
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 — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live. — Douglas MacArthur
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. — Florence King
Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential. — Condoleezza Rice
Great Gatsby American Dream Quotes
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. — Azar Nafisi
Living The Dream Quotes
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. — Swami Vivekananda
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either. — Adi Shankara
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. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. — Wilma Rudolph
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney
Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living. — Mary Tyler Moore
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit. — Sojourner Truth
What It Means To Be An American Quotes
And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better. — Mitt Romney
And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do. — Ronald Reagan
I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. — Bruce Springsteen
You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. — Malcolm X
What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to live like us, drive American- size cars, live in an American-size home, and eat American-size Big Macs. What does that mean? It means that energy demand is going to be going up. — Thomas Friedman
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities. — Ben Nelson
Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up as a writer, that helped form my ideas of what it means to be American - and an American writer. I'm always in conversation with them. — Micah Perks
All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country. — Michael Eric Dyson
Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew? — Etgar Keret
Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American. — William J. Clinton
American Identity Quotes
Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples. — Rigoberta Menchu
To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with. I am proud to be who I am as a Dine' (Navajo) and Nahilii (African American) woman. Hozho', , & blessings — Radmilla Cody
For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.' — Jose Antonio Vargas
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance. — Ruben Hinojosa
My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it. — Mark McMorris
Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. — Carroll Quigley
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. — Arthur Ashe
In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans. — Jane Smiley
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. — Samuel P. Huntington
I am the dream and the hope of the slave — Maya Angelou
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. — Michael Jackson
The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others. — George H. W. Bush
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. 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. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. — Daniel Libeskind
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. — Barry Sanders
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers. — William S. Burroughs
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism. — Bobby Seale
I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over. — Bill Russell
And 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. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here... then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States - that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade. — Diego Della Valle
What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era. — Naomi Wolf
Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance. — Chris Hogan
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night. — Adam Schiff
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream. — Edward Abbey
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways. — Ansel Adams
Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true. — Brittany Maynard
America is a tune. It must be sung together. — Gerald Stanley Lee
After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream. — Ellen Tauscher
Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now. — Emmitt Smith
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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