Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

The line frames perseverance as a reciprocal relationship: dreams are sustained by continued effort, attention, and belief, and they “die” when neglected. By personifying dreams as capable of “giving up,” it dramatizes the cost of quitting—lost aspirations become a kind of self-abandonment. The aphorism also implies that setbacks are not definitive; what matters is maintaining commitment long enough for goals to remain psychologically and practically viable. In a Wooden-like moral register, the emphasis is less on external victory than on inner steadiness: keep working toward what you value, or you will gradually lose the capacity to imagine and pursue it.