Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

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.

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

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

Impossible is just an opinion.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Man is a universe in little.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.