Inspirations

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

- Muhammad Ali

When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

- Marian Anderson

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.

- Doctor Robert Anthony

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

- Lauren Bacall

''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''

- Richard Bach

Man is an imagining being.

- Gaston Bachelard

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

- Henry Ward Beecher

What is now proved was only once imagined.

- William Blake

Imagination rules the world.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

The human race is governed by its imagination.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

- Dorothea Brande

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

- Les Brown

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

- Robert Collier

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

- Robert Collier

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building -- steadily building.

- Robert Collier

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

- Robert Collier

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

- Robert Collier

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

- Stephen R Covey

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

- Donald Curtis

I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

- Stephen Devore

The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

- Mack R Douglas

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

- Albert Einstein

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

- Albert Einstein

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

- Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

- Albert Einstein

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

- J G Gallimore

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

- Charles A Garfield

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

- Ralph Gerard

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

- Napoleon Hill

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

- Napoleon Hill

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

Capability means imagination...

- Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

- Napoleon Hill

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ''as if'' technique.

- William James

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

- Joseph Joubert

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

- Carl Jung

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

- Carl Jung

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

- John Keats

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

- Charles F Kettering

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

- Charles F Kettering

Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

- Peter Kline

We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have ''crossed bridges'' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

- Speakers Library

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ''success mechanism'' within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or ''willpower.''

- Maxwell Maltz

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

- Maxwell Maltz

For imagination sets the goal ''picture'' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ''will,'' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

- Maxwell Maltz

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

- Maxwell Maltz

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

- Maxwell Maltz

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

- Paul Mccartney

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

- John Mcdonald

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

- Alex Morrison

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.

- Jack Nicklaus

Imagination decides everything.

- Blaise Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

- Blaise Pascal

Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

- Mary Caroline Richards

The imagination is the spur of delights, all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

- Marquis De Sade

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

- Saying

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

- Robert H Schuller

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

- Robert L Schwartz

Imagination, its limits are only those of the mind itself.

- Rod Serling

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

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

- Grace Speare

By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

- Success Magazine

Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

- Nikola Tesla

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

- Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

- Henry David Thoreau

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

- Thomas Troward

Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

- Source Unknown

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

- Source Unknown

You must pre-live the future, not re-live the past, and savor the moment.

- Source Unknown

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

- Source Unknown

If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want, then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image.

- Source Unknown

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

- Denis Waitley

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

- Denis Waitley

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

- William A Ward

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.

- Simone Weil

What you see is what you get.

- Flip Wilson

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, during which time he had no access to a piano. When he returned to giving concerts again after he was released, his playing was better than ever. Asked how this was possible since he had not practice for seven years, he replied: ''I did practice, every day. I rehearsed every piece I had ever played, note by note, in my mind.''

- Bernie Zilbergeld

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Inspirational Quotations Addressing the "Waypower" Component of Hope

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''

Man is an imagining being.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

What is now proved was only once imagined.

Imagination rules the world.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

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.

Capability means imagination...

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the ''as if'' technique.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have ''crossed bridges'' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ''success mechanism'' within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or ''willpower.''

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

For imagination sets the goal ''picture'' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ''will,'' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

The imagination is the spur of delights, all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

Imagination, its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

You must pre-live the future, not re-live the past, and savor the moment.

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want, then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.