"If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep” is an aphorism that has been cited in print since at least 1912. The authorship of the saying is unknown.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Butter Makers’ Association
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Feb. 6 to 9, 1912
1912
Pg. 13:
If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep.
25 March 1920, Lebanon (IN) Pioneer, pg. 9, col. 5:
If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep.
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September 1920, Association of YMCA Men, pg. 21, col. 1:
“If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep.”
12 March 1928, The Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA), pg. 15, col. 2:
If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep.
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3 July 1931, Owosso (MI) Argus-Press, “Sawdust,” pg. 2, col. 7:
It is suggested that if you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep.
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If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep.
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“The Greatest Quotations of All-Time”
By Anthony St. Peter
Xlibris (Xlibris.com)
2010
Pg. 197:
If you want your dreams to come true, don’t over sleep. Yiddish Proverb
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Life Among Others:
A Broken Diary/Journal
By Lidwine Barham
Xlibris (Xlibris.com)
2012
Pg. 46:
There is an expression which states, “If you want your dreams to come true, you should not oversleep.”
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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