The American Dream Quotes

The American Dream Quote of the day

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.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

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.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

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.

Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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.

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.

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.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based.

The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

I was never blinded by the American dream. I have my own dreams. You know what I'm saying? The Joey dream.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

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.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Sadly, the American dream is dead.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

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.

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

The American dream only makes sense if you're sleeping.

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

You can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream

The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

All the haters are just jealous, so they're trying to bring me down. I'm young, handsome, successful, wealthy. You could say I'm a role model – I'm the American dream!

Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.