Top 200 Imagination Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

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2. “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

— Dr. Seuss

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3. “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.”

— Roald Dahl

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4. “In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.”

— William Blake

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5. “The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

6. “Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.”

— Walt Disney

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7. “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Science Quotes

8. “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

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9. “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

— Napoleon Hill

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10. “There is nothing more important than developing your imagination to transform your life from the inside world of your thoughts and feelings to the outside world of your results and manifestations.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Dream Big Quotes, Vision Quotes

11. “Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Ambition Quotes

12. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

— Dr. Seuss

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13. “The world is yourself pushed out. Ask yourself what you want and then give it to yourself! Do not question how it will come about; just go your way knowing that the evidence of what you have done must appear, and it will.”

— Neville Goddard

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14. “The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

15. “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

— Walt Disney

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16. “Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it and rearrange the structure of your mind to imply you no longer desire it, because you already have it!”

— Neville Goddard

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17. “The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.”

— Neville Goddard

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18. “It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Adventure Quotes

19. “Your imagination is more real than the world you see, because the world you see comes from what you imagine and believe! What you believe and feel to be true is what will be your life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Intention Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes, Real Quotes

20. “Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso

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21. “Imagination is the beginning of creation.”

— George Bernard Shaw

22. “Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.”

— Neville Goddard

23. “Your Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Manifestation Quotes

24. “There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.”

— Dolores Cannon

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25. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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26. “An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.”

— Neville Goddard

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27. “Imagination is the only redemptive power in the universe.”

— Neville Goddard

28. “The man with no imagination has no wings.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Good Morning Motivational Quotes

29. “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Creative Quotes

30. “This world is but a canvas for our imagination.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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31. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Creative Quotes

32. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

33. “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

— Mark Twain

34. “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”

— John Green

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Quotes About Stars

35. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Creative Quotes

36. “That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Quotes About People, Quotes About Children

37. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Deep Quotes, Creative Quotes

38. “To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.”

— Richard Bach

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

39. “You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”

— Deepak Chopra

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40. “You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”

— Yoko Ono

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Mind Quotes

41. “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes

42. “If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?”

— Steven Wright

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Silly Quotes, Hilarious Quotes, Crazy Quotes

43. “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Real Quotes

44. “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Fiction Quotes, Creative Quotes, Reading Quotes

45. “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Creative Quotes, Character Quotes

46. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

— Melody Truong

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Travel Quotes, Longing Quotes, Quotes About the World

47. “Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ’it doesn’t matter.”

— Lewis Carroll

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Choices Quotes, Character Quotes

48. “The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Being Yourself Quotes

49. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Creative Quotes

50. “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Vision Quotes