Imagination Quotes

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It costs nothing to imagine. No degrees are required, yet every one of us has the power and potential to have an idea that can positively change the world (or earn us millions of dollars). Practice imagining outrageously wonderful things you’d love to see in your life. Create a vision board with pictures of those things. Spend time imagining yourself in those pictures, living with those things, and feeling the feelings those accomplishments would stimulate. The more you feel, the more it becomes real. I call this positive pretending.

Albert Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” It’s an important message for all of us because imagination has no limits and knowledge is always limited. Reading through these imagination quotes, I hope you come to the conclusion we all have the power to become imagination experts.

Our life is a product of all we’ve imagined – the positive and the negative. Believe it or not, that is good news. Great news actually, because imagining can help all of us attract more of what we truly desire in life. We simply need to imagine life better. Then imagine it better still. And after that, imagine it ten times better than that. Is it getting hard to imagine so much ‘goodness’? That just means you need more practice. Keep in mind – we can only attract those things we can imagine into our life. If you can’t imagine it, it is in your best interest to try…baby step, by baby step.

Quote quiz: who said “A mind stretched to a new idea can never go back to its original shape”? It’s in our Joy of Quotes collection under mind quotes if I’m not mistaken. Now start stretching your imagination muscles along with indulging in your ‘inspirational quote’ habit daily.

I see success in large doses coming your way! After imagination quotes, proceed directly to success quotes (unless, of course, your imagination suggests a different subject area.

Your personal joy and inspiration coach,
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Mohammad Ali

The future you see is the future you get.
Robert G. Allen

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.
Frank Barron

Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher

What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake

Before you can do something that you’ve never done before, you have to imagine it’s possible.
Jean Shinoda Bolen

The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your imagination is the source,tirelessly churning out mental pictures of what you'll be doing in the future.
Rob Brezsny

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman

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

There is a boundary to our passions when we act from feelings; but none when we are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
Steven Covey

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.
Winston Churchill

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen R. Covey

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade

The source of genius is imagination alone.
Eugene Delacroix

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
John Dewey

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination.
Emily Dickenson

You need a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
Annie Dillard

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
Thomas Alva Edison

To invent you need a goal, imagination, and a pile of junk.
Thomas Alva Edison

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science.
Albert Einstein

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air of your imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our imagination is boundless. In a split second we can imagine an incredible number of things. To give form to what is imagined takes great creative powers. That's why I believe creativity is giving form to imagination.
Fereydoon Family

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
Bernice FitzGibbon

The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things…it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.
Steve Forbes

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

Your ability to act on your imagination is going to be so decisive in driving your future and the standard of living in your country. So the school, the state, the country that empowers, nurtures, enables imagination among its students and citizens, that's who's going to be the winner.
Friedman, Thomas L.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
Frank Gaines

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.
Shakti Gawain

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Jerry Gillies

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creativity is the ideas expressed after summoning everything you've learned and disregarding everything you know. It's the ability to get out of the way of one's originality and imagination.
Dan Greenberger

The great thing about the dilemma we’re in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do…There isn’t a single thing that doesn’t require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.
Paul Hawken

Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of your desires is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button).
Abraham-Hicks

You are a creator. You create with your every thought…anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.
Abraham-Hicks

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

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

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
Henry James

Intuition is a way of knowing about the world through insight and exercising one's imagination.
Valerie Janesick

Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison

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

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.
Dennis Kimbro

You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
Anne Lamott

Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
Georgette Leblane

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
Barry Lopez

You can’t do it unless you imagine it.
George Lucas

A creative block is the wall we erect to ward off the anxiety we suppose we'll experince if we sit down to work.
Eric Maisel

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison S. Marden

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
Rollo May

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
Carson McSullers

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.L. Mencken

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Duane Michals

Imagination is the fundamental expressive tool of the soul.
Bruce L. Moon

Relief from boredom, anxiety, depression, and addictions are the pleasant side effects of engaging the imagination, and of restoring the soul.
Bruce L. Moon

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

What is creativity? I define creativity as the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. Innovation is the production or implementation of a creative idea. If you have ideas, but don't act on them, you are imaginative but not creative.
Linda Naiman

Creativity is imagining possibilities and making them real.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly

Creativity is our human capacity to imagine and express new possibilities.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly

Creativity is the process of expressing and applying imagination.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly

For every negative imagining (worry thought), practice positive pretending (imagining the most wonderful outcome).
Marta Davidovich Ockuly

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Mary Oliver

Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
Alex Osborn

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

Everything in life is writable if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.
Sylvia Plath

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.
Catherine Ponder

By picturing ourselves creating at our highest levels, imagining the finished product and the deep joy that comes from creating, we move closer to our dreams. Visualizing the end result from our creative effort helps us achieve it.
Salli Rasberry

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

We humans are not creatures of instinct who all build our nests in the same way. Throughout our day, whether at home or at work, we humans adapt and innovate, improvise flexibly, at times acting from our 'gut feelings', at times from options we imagine and systematically try out, one after the other. Our creativity may involve anything from making breakfast to solving a major conflict with one's boss.
Ruth Richards

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
Sir Ken Robinson

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
Sir Ken Robinson

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
Sir Ken Robinson

The world of reality has its bounds, the world of imagination is boundless.
Rousseau

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let go and trust; allow inspiration and imagination to lead the way…beyond the limitations of what the mind knows.
Linda Saccoccio

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourishes you.
SARK

Plant impossible gardens. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swing set, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Take moon baths. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Entertain your inner child. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters.
SARK

The spirit of entrepreneurship includes imagination, inventiveness and openness to the new. This spirit of creative response aligns with the capacity to exercise moral imagination and to see ethical problems in a new light. To be sure, our most fundamental ethical values -- values such as honesty, avoiding doing harm, keeping commitments -- are grounded in timeless traditions and are not likely to be soon abandoned. But it is in the application of these ethical values to emerging, unique situations, where moral imagination and the entrepreneurial spirit can make a decisive difference.
David Schmidt

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles M. Schwab

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

Creativity is…seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
Michele Shea

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher

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

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Henri B. Stendhal

Your knowledge has limits but your imagination does not.
Geraint Straker

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

You cannot depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

Imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

All that is the work of the human hand, the whole world of culture, is distinguished from the natural world because it is a project of human imagination and creativity based on imagination.
L.S. Vygotsky

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

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Oscar Wilde

Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
Marianne Williamson

We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?
Marianne Williamson

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.
Oprah Winfrey

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Worry is misuse of imagination.
Dan Zadra