Charles Kettering Quotes

Dream more than others think practical.

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.

It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

Impossible doesn't concern me. My job is to dream.

I dreamed really big when I was little.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.

All men of action are dreamers.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Genius is talent exercised with courage

I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

Ambition is a form of creativity.