136 Neville Goddard Quotes: Best Lines on Imagination & the Law

From the law of assumption to the discipline of controlled imagination, these 136 neville goddard quotes remain strikingly practical — for anyone learning to reshape their inner state and watch the outer world follow. Learn more about his life and work at Wikipedia’s Neville Goddard biography.

Neville Goddard Quotes on Imagination and the Law

1. Imagination creates reality.
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2. Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
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3. An assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact.
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4. All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
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5. To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself.
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6. The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfillment of your every desire.
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7. Your assumptions create your experience.
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8. The future will not be fundamentally different from the present if you assume the present.
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9. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.
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10. The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention firmly and repeatedly focused on the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
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11. Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to its fulfillment.
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12. Your present life is the sum total of all your past assumptions.
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13. We are all the sum total of what we assume ourselves to be.
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14. You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you want to be, you no longer want it — you are it.
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15. God is your own wonderful human imagination.
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16. You must assume the responsibility of being what you want to be.
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17. When you know what you want, you know you have to do something to get it — and that something is to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
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18. The feeling of the wish fulfilled, if assumed and sustained, must objectify the state in which it was created.
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19. No one can take from you what you have not first given yourself in imagination.
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20. Your imagination is able to do all that you ask in proportion to the degree of your attention.
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21. The whole vast world is no more than man’s imagination pushed out.
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22. Persist in the assumption that your desire is already fulfilled.
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23. The law of consciousness can be likened to the law of reflection. As the image is determined by the object reflected, so the world is determined by your concept of yourself.
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24. Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.
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25. The first principle of the law is that you must be what you want the world to be.
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26. Your assumption is the womb from which your world is born.
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27. Do not fight the problem; assume the solution.
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Neville Goddard Quotes on Feeling and the Wish Fulfilled

1. Assume you already have it, and give thanks for it.
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2. You cannot change the past, but you can revise it in imagination and rob it of its power over you.
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3. The creative power in you is your imagination.
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4. You do not need to struggle. You need only to assume.
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5. Rest in the assumption. Let the law do the work.
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6. Your world will rearrange itself to match your assumption.
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7. Love your enemies by revising them into friends in your imagination.
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8. If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.
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9. The subconscious does not argue controversially. It accepts as true that which the conscious mind feels to be true.
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10. The day you cease to be concerned with what others think of you is the day you begin to be free.
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11. Feeling is the secret.
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12. Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to reinfect yourself.
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13. A change of feeling is a change of destiny.
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14. Every feeling makes a subconscious impression and, unless it is counteracted by a more powerful feeling of an opposite nature, must be expressed.
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15. Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want.
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16. Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination; disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire.
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17. Be still and know that you are that which you desire to be, and you will never have to search for it.
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18. Never go to sleep feeling discouraged or dissatisfied. Never sleep in the consciousness of failure.
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19. Claim yourself to be that which you desire to be.
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20. 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.
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21. Doubt is the only thing that stands between you and your desire.
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22. Think feelingly only of the state you desire to realize.
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23. To desire is to confess that you do not now possess it. So in desiring you may be simply stating your present lack.
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24. To pray successfully you must yield to the wish — that is, feel the wish fulfilled instead of the desire to be fulfilled.
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25. You must feel yourself into the state of your fulfilled desire.
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26. To live wisely we must be aware of our thoughts and feelings, for they are the seeds of our future.
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27. Enter into the spirit of the state desired by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
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Neville Goddard Quotes on Consciousness and Self-Concept

1. Every problem automatically produces its own solution in the form of the desire to be free from the problem.
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2. You must learn to live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled until it becomes a natural state.
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3. The bridge of incidents will carry you to your desire.
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4. Health, wealth, beauty and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind.
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5. It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abundant life, and to be happy, radiant, and free.
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6. The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which every mystic aspires.
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7. Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live.
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8. The world is yourself pushed out.
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9. Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.
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10. Nothing comes from without; all things come from within — from the subconscious.
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11. Consciousness is the only reality.
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12. Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.
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13. Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face.
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14. The journey is in yourself. You travel within.
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15. Sleep is the door through which man passes from the conscious world into the subconscious world.
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16. I AM is the self-definition of the absolute, the foundation on which everything rests.
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17. You and you alone are responsible for the choices you make. The world is a mirror reflecting your inner state.
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18. Forgiveness is the test of your ability to enter the new state. Can you forgive everyone, including yourself?
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19. Your world is your consciousness objectified.
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20. Poverty is a state of consciousness, and so is wealth.
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21. You never draw out of the deep of yourself that which you want; you always draw that which you are.
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22. Habit is the evidence of a state of consciousness accepted as true.
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23. 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.
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24. You are what you are by virtue of what you imagine yourself to be.
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25. The consciousness of being or possessing is the only reality.
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26. Your awareness is the God within you, and with God all things are possible.
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27. The outer world is but the shadow of the inner.
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Neville Goddard Quotes on Faith, Prayer and Gratitude

1. Do not let the world tell you who you are. Tell the world who you are.
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2. The riches of heaven are within your own mind.
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3. There is no one to change but self.
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4. Your inner speech is the architect of your world.
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5. Watch your inner conversations, for they are the cause of your outer circumstances.
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6. Your conception of yourself — your self-image — is the sum total of all you accept as true.
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7. The time will come when you will realize that the whole universe is just an emanation of yourself.
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8. You are not moved by outer forces. You are moved by your own inner states.
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9. You must not fight the shadows. They are only the reflection of your own inner light being blocked.
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10. Imagining creates the state; the state creates the world.
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11. You are the operant power. It does not operate itself.
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12. Consciousness is the cause as well as the substance of the entire world.
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13. The outer man is a reflection of the inner man.
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14. A mood is a state of consciousness, and every state must express itself.
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15. Do not concern yourself with the bridge. Occupy the end.
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16. Everyone in your world is yourself pushed out, playing the part you assigned them.
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17. What you think upon grows. Whatsoever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life.
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18. Attention is the key to life. Whatever you give your attention to will grow and multiply in your experience.
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19. The drama of life is a psychological one in which we bring circumstances to pass by our attitudes rather than by our acts.
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20. You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.
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21. You do not get what you want; you get what you believe you are.
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22. It is not what you want that you attract; you attract what you believe to be true.
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23. Believe that you are what you want to be.
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24. Your faith is your fortune.
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25. Nothing is impossible to you. You can be what you want to be if you will believe.
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26. When you give thanks as though the wish were already fulfilled, you open the door to its manifestation.
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27. Thinking from the end is the secret of all answered prayer.
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Short Neville Goddard Quotes

1. To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty.
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2. The question is not whether you are worthy; the question is whether you can accept the gift.
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3. At night, as you go to sleep, revise the day. Replay every event and make it conform to your ideal.
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4. You must be born again. You must be born of water and of the Spirit.
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5. Do not be concerned with how it will happen. Simply know that it will.
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6. No one is to blame for your current condition but you.
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7. You are not a victim of circumstances; you are the architect of them.
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8. The state you are in determines what you see.
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9. Signs follow; they do not precede.
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10. Do not ask how it is going to happen. Just know that it is.
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11. You become what you contemplate.
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12. Every natural effect has a spiritual cause, and not a natural.
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13. What you do not feel, you do not attract.
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14. A thought acted upon is a seed planted. Do not plant weeds.
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15. To be transformed, the whole basis of your thoughts must change.
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16. What we are inwardly, that we are outwardly.
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17. The acceptance of the end wills the means.
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18. Do not be anxious about tomorrow. Live in the end.
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19. Man attracts what he is, not what he wants.
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20. Revision is the key to transformation.
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21. Your dominant mood determines your life.
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22. Guard your moods, for they are the creative forces of your life.
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23. You are free to choose the state you will occupy.
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24. Do not think of what you want; think from the state of having it.
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25. Struggle is the confession of a divided mind.
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26. Change the play by changing your conception of the actors.
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27. Awaken from the dream by assuming you are awake.
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28. Eternity is now. Do not postpone your good.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Who was Neville Goddard?

Neville Goddard (1905–1972) was a Barbadian-born mystic and lecturer who taught in Los Angeles and New York. His core teaching — often called the Law of Assumption — holds that imagination creates reality and that assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled brings desires into being.

What is Neville Goddard’s most famous quote?

“Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled” is his most quoted line, alongside “Imagination creates reality” and “An assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact.”

What are Neville Goddard’s main books?

His best-known books include Feeling Is the Secret (1944), The Power of Awareness (1952), Awakened Imagination (1954) and Your Faith Is Your Fortune (1941). Many of the neville goddard quotes on this page come from these works and his recorded lectures.

What does ‘the feeling of the wish fulfilled’ mean?

It means imagining yourself already in possession of your desire — feeling the emotions of having it now, rather than wanting it. Neville taught that this sustained feeling impresses the subconscious, which then works to make it real.

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