Childhood dreams often influence future career choices.
Many successful people like Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey followed their early passions to great success.
To prepare for a dream career, education and practical experience are key. Pursuing relevant degrees and gaining experience through internships or volunteering can be beneficial.
Research supports this showing that childhood interests can predict career paths.
A LinkedIn survey found that 37% of professionals work in fields tied to their childhood dreams with 60% of them happy in their jobs.
Below you will find a curated list of 63 Best Childhood Dreams Quotes.
Childhood Dreams Quotes
Be good at something. It makes you valuable. ~ Randy Pausch.
My success has surpassed my childhood dreams. ~ Lisa Leslie.
It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm. ~ Jasmine Guinness
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn’t sure how to start. ~ John Grisham
Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine. ~ Harry Markowitz.
To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal. ~ Maya Rudolph
Don’t complain; just work harder. ~ Randy Pausch.
My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn’t; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life. ~ Andrea Navedo.
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. ~ Randy Pausch.
Don’t you find it odd,” she continued, “that when you’re a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you’re older, somehow they act offended if you even try. ~ Ethan Hawke
Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work. ~ Randy Pausch.
Also Read: Inner Child Quotes
Best Childhood Dreams Quotes
It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as if my childhood dreams had finally found the place where they could materialize. I had arrived where I was always meant to be. I did not know how it could be practically achieved, but I was certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that it was here that I wanted to live. ~ Kuki Gallmann
When you have a childhood dream that still burns and tugs at your heart when you’re an adult, you owe it to yourself to pursue and achieve this dream. ~ Robert Cheeke
My parents used to rent old movies – my whole childhood is in black and white – and it was my dream to make films. ~ Tom Rachman.
I’m dying and I’m having fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day I have left. ~ Randy Pausch.
I really can’t complain about anything. I’m living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There’s really nothing that I’m disappointed with. ~ Tim Hudson
I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there. ~ Anthony Hopkins
If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity. ~ Randy Pausch
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. ~ Rebecca Carroll
Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don’t really want to achieve their childhood dreams. ~ Randy Pausch
Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream – of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete – lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs. ~ Glenn Kurtz
Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself. ~ Randy Pausch
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want. ~ Randy Pausch.
Inspiring Childhood Dreams Quotes
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace. ~ Linda McCartney
I grew up watching “That’s So Raven” and “Lizzie McGuire,” and I said to myself that I could do that one day, and here I am. This is a dream come true and I am just ecstatic to be here living out my childhood dreams. ~ Zendaya
It’s very, very special for me. This is where I’ve grown up, it’s my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver’s career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable. ~ Nico.
It’s not about how to achieve your dreams, it’s about how to lead your life, … If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you. ~ Randy Pausch
My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I’ve done that. Everything else is icing on the cake. ~ Lindsey Vonn
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. ~ Giorgio de Chirico
I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play. ~ Yani Tseng
I’m like the luckiest girl in the world. I’ve gotten to be a princess, I’ve gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. ~ Amy Adams
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams. ~ Halldor Laxness.
Motivational Childhood Dreams Quotes
I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one. ~ Paulo Coelho
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. ~ Andrew Wiles
The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from … The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn’t easy. ~ Nicholas Negroponte
It’s a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun. ~ Randy Pausch
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species. ~ Peter Diamandis
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth. ~ Charles Lamb
We get to do what we love, and that’s the most important thing. I feel very thankful, every day that I get to wake up and do what I do because it’s a childhood dream. I get to live my job, and it’s more than I could ever ask for. ~ Howard Berger
I had always wanted to be on SNL, it’s not always great, but it’s this leftover childhood dream. ~ Rachel Dratch
I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it’s like a party. ~ Jean Paul Gaultier.
Quotes about Childhood Dreams
My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It’s kind of flipped, and I’m not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there. ~ Grant Gustin
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentile hand Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined In memory’s mystic band, Like pilgrim’s withered wreath of flowers Pluck’d in a far off land. ~ Lewis Carroll
I’m finally able to tell you… that I will be playing Belle in Disney’s new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I’ll get to dance to ‘Be Our Guest’ and sing ‘Something There’. My six year old self is on the ceiling – heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can’t wait for you to see it. ~ Emma Watson
My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually. ~ Godfrey Gao
Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke. ~ Julian Barnes
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. ~ Randy Pausch
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That’s what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up. ~ Chester Bennington
I grew up loving cars. It was completely and utterly, without a doubt, my childhood dream. Whether your childhood dream progresses or changes, you turn into a man and you probably shouldn’t still have that same dream. ~ Dominic Cooper
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky. ~ Valentina Tereshkova
Due to the NFL lockout, I’m excited to be able to follow my childhood dream of playing for a Major League Soccer team. ~ Chad Ochocinco
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. ~ Randy Pausch
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll. ~ Gerald Caiafa
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. ~ Raquel Welch
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. ~ Bernard Berenson
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
Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others. ~ Randy Pausch
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. ~ Henry David Thoreau
I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time. ~ Drew Bledsoe
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. ~ Michael Leunig
When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you’re in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, “What will I do between now and then?” Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform – your contribution to the world. ~ Bette Midler.
Messi, he’s exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there’s a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He’s a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow. ~ Eric Cantona.
It’s very important to know when you’re in a pissing match. And it’s very important to get out of it as quickly as possible. ~ Randy Pausch.
I hope this collection of amazing quotes on childhood dreams will let you go back to the memory lane.
