Top 200 Imagination Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

— Thomas A. Edison

52. “Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.”

— Neville Goddard

53. “Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.”

— Paulo Coelho

54. “Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.”

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

55. “What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn’t fail?”

— Brian Tracy

56. “Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.”

— Neville Goddard

57. “The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

— Pablo Picasso

58. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”

— Mae Jemison

59. “The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.”

— Deepak Chopra

60. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

— George Bernard Shaw

61. “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Lewis Carroll

62. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Gloria Steinem

64. “Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

— Neville Goddard

65. “Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts.”

— Neville Goddard

66. “Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.”

— Neville Goddard

67. “Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

— Terry Pratchett

68. “I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”

— John Lennon

69. “You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.”

— Freddie Mercury

70. “You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.”

— Neil Gaiman

71. “I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

— Jack Kerouac

72. “You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.”

— Neville Goddard

73. “Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah, they’re birds now.”

— Bob Ross

74. “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

75. “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

— Henry David Thoreau

76. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

77. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”

— Maya Angelou

78. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

— E.E. Cummings

79. “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

80. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

— Maya Angelou

81. “Nothing comes from without. All things come from within.”

— Neville Goddard

82. “A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.”

— Neville Goddard

83. “That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.”

— Neil Gaiman

84. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

— Lewis Carroll

85. “Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.”

— Neville Goddard

86. “Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.”

— Neville Goddard

87. “Just remember, it all started with a mouse.”

— Walt Disney

88. “Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

— Douglas Adams

89. “Dream better than the best you know.”

— Neville Goddard

90. “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.”

— Walt Disney

91. “Worry is a waste of imagination.”

— Walt Disney

92. “You create your own reality.”

— Jane Roberts

93. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently...”

— Apple Inc.

94. “It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

— Terry Pratchett

95. “I reject your reality and substitute my own.”

— Adam Savage

96. “You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?”

— Terry Pratchett

97. “Thoughts become things.”

— Rhonda Byrne

98. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

— William Shakespeare

99. “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”

— Neil Gaiman

100. “The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.”

— Neville Goddard