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title: "8 Dreams Started Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 8 Dreams Started quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Dreams Started sayings and thoughts."
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> [Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmitt-smith/vision-gets-the-dreams-started-dreaming-employs-your-god-given/)

[Emmitt Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmitt-smith/)

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> [Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/truman-capote/reading-dreams-that-s-what-started-her-walking-down-the-road-every/)

[Truman Capote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/truman-capote/)

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> [“I sit on the curb and think about Duncan and Peter, and how none of us got to live out the dreams…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-e-whitten/i-sit-on-the-curb-and-think-about-duncan-and-peter-and-how-none-of-us/)

[Zoe E. Whitten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-e-whitten/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/857/zoe-e-whitten-93062_dreams_i-sit-on-the-curb-and-think-about-duncan_998334.jpg)

> [I've known both misery and happiness, lived in so many different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-parks/i-ve-known-both-misery-and-happiness-lived-in-so-many-different-skins/)

[Gordon Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-parks/)

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> [Vision gets the dreams started.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmitt-smith/vision-gets-the-dreams-started/)

[Emmitt Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmitt-smith/)

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> [Dreams get you started; discipline keeps you going.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-rohn/dreams-get-you-started-discipline-keeps-you-going/)

[Jim Rohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-rohn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b91/jim-rohn-243_discipline_dreams-get-you-started-discipline-keeps_1380566.jpg)

> [I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dolores-o-riordan/i-was-19-when-i-wrote-dreams-and-that-would-have-been-when-it-started/)

[Dolores O'Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dolores-o-riordan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c78/dolores-o-riordan-4817_band_i-was-19-when-i-wrote-dreams-and-that-wo_2266040.jpg)

> [Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-verica/right-before-american-dreams-i-started-to-pursue-these-avenues-like/)

[Tom Verica](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-verica/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/391/tom-verica-32640_american_right-before-american-dreams-i-started-t_3034703.jpg)

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