"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream"
About this Quote
The line works because it flatters the listener without letting them off the hook. Dreams are dignified as origins, but seeds are also obligations. If your dream is a seed, then you are responsible for soil, water, sunlight - the boring parts. The subtext is: inspiration matters, but it only counts when it becomes a practice. "Nothing ever grows" and "nothing ever changes" turn the metaphor into a dare. It's a totalizing claim, absolute in a way that motivational speech often is, but the absolutism is purposeful: it pushes against cynicism, the cultural reflex that calls dreams naive and equates realism with resignation.
Contextually, Boone emerges from a mid-to-late 20th-century American media ecosystem that prized uplift: talk shows, faith-adjacent positivity, the idea that personal mindset can reboot a life. Her quote sits comfortably there, yet it also sneaks in a gentler politics: if change starts as a dream, then imagination isn't escapism - it's the first material.
Quote Details
| Topic | Change |
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| Source | Later attribution: Follow Your Dreams (Melanie Young, 2013) modern compilationISBN: 9781300818687 · ID: EDq-BAAAQBAJ
Evidence:
... Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream." ~Debby Boone "If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening ... |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Boone, Debby. (2026, February 12). Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/dreams-are-the-seeds-of-change-nothing-ever-grows-170815/
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Boone, Debby. "Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream." FixQuotes. February 12, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/dreams-are-the-seeds-of-change-nothing-ever-grows-170815/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream." FixQuotes, 12 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/dreams-are-the-seeds-of-change-nothing-ever-grows-170815/. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.











