155 Of Neville Goddard’s Most Influential & Inspiring Quotes To Shape Your Own Reality
"Fools Exploit The World; The Wise Transfigure It."- Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard, born in Barbados in 1905, was an inspirational speaker and writer who made a significant impact on the world of self-help and personal development.
Despite receiving limited recognition during his lifetime, Goddard's ideas and teachings continue to inspire and influence people around the world to this day.
He was a charismatic figure, known for his unique and captivating speaking style, which combined elements of philosophy, spirituality, and psychology.
Goddard believed that our thoughts have the power to shape our reality and that we can use this power to create the life we desire.
He taught that the key to unlocking this power is our imagination, and that by visualizing and feeling what we want as though it has already happened, we can manifest it in our lives.
This concept, which is now widely known as the "Law of Attraction," was one of Goddard's most famous teachings.
Throughout his career, Goddard wrote several books, including "Feeling is the Secret," "Awakened Imagination," and "Out of This World."
These works have been highly influential in the self-help and personal development communities, and many of Goddard's ideas and concepts continue to be widely referenced today.
One of the things that sets Goddard apart from other motivational speakers and writers is his unique perspective on the power of imagination.
He believed that imagination is the bridge between our inner and outer worlds and that by accessing and harnessing it, we can create the reality we desire.
This idea is at the core of Goddard's teachings, and it is reflected in many of his famous quotes.
Some of the most memorable Neville Goddard's quotes: "Imagination is the workshop of your mind, with which you fashion your future," "What you make of your life is up to you," and "You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot—it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."
It’s clear that Neville Goddard was a visionary and a pioneering figure in the world of self-help and personal development.
His teachings have inspired millions of people around the world and continue to do so today.
He left behind a rich legacy of ideas and wisdom, and his famous quotes are a testament to the timelessness and relevance of his teachings.
Whether you're looking for inspiration, guidance, or simply a fresh perspective, Neville Goddard's teachings are worth exploring.
Belief & Positivity Quotes
"I will be" is a confession that "I am not." The Father's will is always "I am." Until you realize that you are the Father (there is only one "I am" and your infinite self is that "I am"), your will is always "I will be.".
"Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change."
"A change of feeling is a change of destiny."
"If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact."
"Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself."
"The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself."
"All you need is time… and you have it… now!"
"It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true."
"All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the "renewing of the mind" is desire. You must want to be different
"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."
"Become aware of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances."
"Begin with self."
"A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness."
"Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be, for in that determined assumption you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite Being all things are possible."
"Always go to the end. Dwell in the end and you will hurt no one."
"You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it."
"Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world."
"Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are."
"Believe that you are what you want to be."
"Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions."
"If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses."
"The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfillment of your every desire."
"Don't condemn yourself for the state into which you have fallen. If you don't like it, move into another."
"The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion."
"Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance."
"Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world."
"You are the truth of everything that you perceive."
"Everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves. That which we will not affirm as true of ourselves cannot develop in our life."
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
"There would be no progress in this world were it not for man's dissatisfaction with himself."
"Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it."
"If we do not like what is happening to us, it is a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet."
"Fear of loss brings loss into your world."
"The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself."
"How would I feel if I were free?"
"For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself."
"If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact."
"The drama of life is a psychological one in which all the conditions, circumstances, and events of your life are brought to pass by your assumptions. Since your life is determined by your assumptions, you are forced to recognize the fact that you are either a slave to your assumptions or their master. To become the master of your assumptions is the key to undreamed of freedom and happiness."
"I and my Father are one but my Father is greater than I. The conscious and subconscious are one, but the subconscious is greater than the conscious."
"Take your attention away from your problem and the multitude of reasons why you cannot achieve your ideal. Concentrate your attention entirely upon the thing desired."
"If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright – that of equality."
"Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be."
"Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself."
"Simply dare to assume you are what you want to be and you will compel everyone to play their part."
"Education is not accomplished by putting something into man; its purpose is to draw out of man the wisdom which is latent within him."
"Feeling a state produces that state."
"When a sculptor looks at a formless piece of marble he sees, buried within its formless mass, his finished piece of art. The sculptor, instead of making his masterpiece, merely reveals it by removing that part of the marble which hides his conception. The same applies to you."
"When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life."
"Nothing is impossible to you."
"The beliefs in the potency of drugs to heal, diets to strengthen, money to secure, are the values or money changers that must be thrown."
"Consciousness is the one and only reality, not figuratively but actually. This reality may for the sake of clarity be likened unto a stream which is divided into two parts, the conscious and the subconscious. In order to intelligently operate the law of consciousness, it is necessary to understand the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious is personal and selective; the subconscious is impersonal and non-selective. The conscious is the realm of effect; the subconscious is the realm of cause. These two aspects are the male and female divisions of consciousness. The conscious is male; the subconscious is female. The conscious generates ideas and impresses these ideas on the subconscious; the subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them. By this law-first conceiving an idea and then impressing the idea conceived on the subconscious-all things evolve out of consciousness."
"Your subconscious impressions determine the conditions of your world."
"Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed."
"To rise in consciousness to the level of the thing desired and to remain there until such level becomes your nature is the way of all seeming miracles."
"You must be conscious of being healthy if you are to know what health is."
Famous Neville Goddard's Quotes
"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."
"You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon that which you desire to be."
"Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality."
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"To desire a state is to have it."
"Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want."
"Predetermine what you want to hear and listen until you hear it."
"Without the aid of any man, he will define himself as that which he desires to express. He will discover that his I am is the virgin conceiving without the aid of man, that all conceptions of himself, when felt, and fixed in consciousness, will be embodied easily as living realities in his world."
"Love is not love if there is no beloved."
"You must be conscious of being secure if you are to know what security is."
"The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfilment of your every desire."
"Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself."
"Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation."
"Assume wealth knowingly."
"If he does not know what he is doing, he can lose his wealth and not know how to recover it. I am asking you, regardless of your financial situation, to assume wealth, knowingly."
"Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it and rearrange the structure of your mind to imply you no longer desire it, because you already have it!"
"Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness."
"Andrew or courage."
"To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself."
"Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified."
"The cornerstone on which all things are based is man’s concept of himself."
"Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to its fulfillment."
"To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty."
"Nothing comes from without; all things come from within - from the subconscious."
"Your present level of consciousness will only be transcended as you drop the present state and rise to a higher level. You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon that which you desire to be."
"Emotional disturbances, especially suppressed emotions, are the causes of all disease. To feel intensely about a wrong without voicing or expressing that feeling is the beginning of disease – in both body and environment."
"All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver."
"The circumstances of your life reflect what you have been saying."
"You must be in the consciousness of being or having that which you want to be or to have before you drop off to sleep. Once asleep, man has no freedom of choice. His entire slumber is dominated by his last waking concept of self."
"The subconscious is what a man is. The conscious is what a man knows."
"Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the (subconscious) impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself."
"Enact a scene that implies you have what you desire, and to the degree that you are faithful to that state, it will unfold in your world and no power can stop it, for there is no other power."
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and feel as true, the subconscious can and must objectify. Your feelings create the pattern from which your world is fashioned, and a change of feeling is a change of pattern."
"All you need is time… and you have it…now!"
"The individual’s inner speech and actions attract the conditions of his life."
"Love is our birth right. Love is the fundamental necessity of our life. Do not go seeking for that which you are."
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"The drama of life is a psychological one which we bring to pass by our attitudes rather than by our acts."
"All meditation ends at last with the thinker, and he finds he is what he, himself, has conceived."
"With Words or inner talking we build our world."
"He who rises from his prayer a better man, his prayer has been granted."
"Our inner conversations represent in various ways the world we live in."
"Our present mental conversations do not recede into the past, they advance into the future to confront us as wasted or invested words."
"PRAYER is the master key. A key, may fit one door of a house, but when it fits all doors it may well claim to be a master key. Such and no less a key, is prayer to all earthly problems."
"Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man’s inner talking."
"The signs always follow. They never precede."
"Only when one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be."
"If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birth right - that of equality."
"The undisciplined man’s attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master. It is captured by the pressing rather than the important."
"Instead of fighting against the evidence of the senses you claim yourself to be that which you desire to be. As your attention is placed on this claim, the doors of the senses automatically close against your former master (that which you were conscious of being)."
"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. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself."
"Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and continue feeling that it is fulfilled until that which you feel objectifies itself. If a physical fact can produce a psychological state, a psychological state can produce a physical fact.”
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Motivational Neville Goddard's Quotes
"Claim it; it will respond."
"Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality."
"Everyone is free to create his world as he wants it if he knows that the whole thing is responding to him."
"Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to reinfect yourself."
"The world is yourself pushed out. Ask yourself what you want and then give it to yourself! Do not question how it will come about; just go your way knowing that the evidence of what you have done must appear, and it will."
"Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination."
"Never go to sleep feeling discouraged or dissatisfied. Never sleep in the consciousness of failure."
"The conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions in sleep."
Spiritual Quotes
"Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience."
“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.”
"Sensation precedes manifestation and is the foundation upon which all manifestation rests."
"Those who go seeking for love only make manifest their own lovelessness and the loveless never find love. Only the loving find love and they never have to seek for it."
"Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind."
"Your inner being is he who men call God."
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Success Quotes
"Your attention must be developed, controlled, and concentrated in order to change your concept of yourself successfully and thereby change your future.".
"Prayer succeeds by avoiding conflict. Prayer is, above all things, easy. Its greatest enemy is effort.".
"Your attention must be developed, controlled, and concentrated in order to change your concept of yourself successfully and thereby change your future.".
"How successful you are on the outside is directly related to how relaxed you feel inside. Your emotional sense of well-being dictates your life.".
"Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired."
"If you assume success and persist in that assumption, you cannot fail. That is the law.".
"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."
Imagination Quotes
"When will and imagination are in conflict, imagination invariably wins."
"I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be."
"Imagination has full power of objective realization and every stage of man’s progress or regression is made by the exercise of imagination."
“Do you believe in God? Believe also in your imagination.”
"What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention."
"Imagination is able to do anything, but only according to the internal direction of your attention. When you attain control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water, but will launch out into the deep of life."
"All that meditation amounts to is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention. Simply hold the attention on a certain idea until it fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness."
"Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin."
"No quality so separates man from man as does the disciplined imagination. Those who have given most to society are our artists, scientists, inventors and others with vivid imaginations."
"Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.”
"All things are possible to God, and you found who he is. It is your own wonderful human imagination that’s God."
“Most people who desire to change their life make the mistake of not imagining deeply or long enough, they let the 3D world and what they see dictate their reality instead of their imagination.”
“Your own wonderful human imagination is the actual creative power of God within you.”
"Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts."
"Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another."
“The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention firmly and repeatedly focused on the feeling of the wish fulfilled until it fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness.”
“It is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.”
“Imagination is the only redemptive power in the universe.”
“Determined imagination, thinking from the end is the beginning of all miracles.”
"Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation."
“An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.”
"The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished."
"Imagination is seeing with the eye of God."
"To attempt to change circumstances before I change my own imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of my own being, for my own imaginal activity is animating my world."
"The whole vast world is no more than man’s imagining pushed out."
“There is nothing God cannot do! Do not think that one who is fabulously rich has an influx of spirit which differs from yours. He is imagining wealth, either wittingly or unwittingly; but you can do it knowingly.”
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“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.”
“Have faith in your imagined act.”
“All you can possibly need or desire is already yours. Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.”
How Can Quotes Help You?
Quotes can have a profound impact on one's life and can serve as a source of inspiration, motivation, and guidance. Here are some ways that quotes can help improve your life:
- Providing perspective: Quotes can offer a different perspective on a situation, challenge or a feeling that you may be experiencing.
- Encouraging self-reflection: Quotes can inspire self-reflection and introspection, helping you to better understand yourself, your motivations and your values.
- Inspiring change: Quotes can help to shift your mindset and encourage you to make positive changes in your life.
- Boosting motivation: Quotes can be a source of inspiration and motivation, helping you to overcome obstacles and pursue your goals.
- Building resilience: Quotes can help to build resilience, providing you with the encouragement and strength to face challenges and difficulties.
- Offering guidance: Quotes can offer guidance and wisdom, providing you with practical advice on how to live a fulfilling life.
- Providing comfort: Quotes can offer comfort and solace during difficult times, helping you to find peace and hope.
How Can Neville Goddard's Quotes Help You?
Neville Goddard's quotes can help improve your life in a number of ways. Here are a few ways how:
- Inspiration: Quotes by Neville Goddard can provide inspiration and encouragement to help you stay motivated and focused on your goals.
- Empowerment: His quotes often emphasize the power of the imagination and the role it plays in shaping your reality. They can help you understand that you have the ability to create your own reality and that your thoughts and feelings are more powerful than external circumstances.
- Mindset Shift: Goddard's teachings focus on the power of positive thinking and the idea that your thoughts and beliefs shape your experiences. By regularly reading and internalizing his quotes, you can shift your mindset to a more positive and empowered one.
- Personal Growth: Goddard's teachings emphasize the importance of taking responsibility for your life and focusing on personal growth. Quotes from him can provide insights and guidance to help you improve your life and reach your full potential.
- Clarity: Quotes from Goddard can help clarify your thoughts and beliefs, providing a clearer understanding of your values and priorities. They can help you stay focused on what's truly important to you and provide guidance on how to make positive changes in your life.
Next Steps
Now that you’ve read the quotes and understand their value, this is how you can implement them into your life in order to create real change:
- Choose quotes that resonate with you and align with your values and goals
- Write the quotes down and display them in a prominent place where you can see them regularly
- Reflect on the meaning and relevance of the quotes to your life
- Incorporate the messages of the quotes into your daily thoughts, actions, and decisions
- Use a coffee mug, water bottle, or tote bag with a positive message to start your day on a positive note and spread positivity to others.
- Use the quotes as a source of motivation and encouragement when facing challenges
- Regularly evaluate and adjust the quotes you use to ensure they continue to inspire and motivate you
- Share your favorite quotes with others to spread positivity and inspire others as well
- Wear a wristband or bracelet with a positive quote or mantra as a daily reminder of your goals and aspirations.
- Use a manifestation journal or planner with positive quotes to write down your thoughts and reflect on your day with a positive outlook
Frequently Asked Questions
Who Is Neville Goddard?
Neville Goddard was a mystic, spiritual teacher, and author who lived from 1905 to 1972.
He was known for his unique and practical teachings on the power of imagination, belief, and feelings in shaping one's reality.
His teachings are based on the idea that one's thoughts, beliefs, and imagination are the primary determinants of their experience of reality.
What Is The Main Idea Behind Neville Goddard's Quotes And Teachings?
The main idea behind Neville Goddard's quotes and teachings is that one's thoughts and imagination are the primary drivers of their reality.
He believed that by controlling one's imagination and focusing it on a desired outcome, one could shape their reality to match their desires.
He taught that the power of imagination, when combined with faith and feeling, could be used to create positive change in one's life and that this process was the key to unlocking personal power and manifesting abundance and success.
How Can Neville Goddard's Quotes Be Applied In Everyday Life?
Neville Goddard's quotes can be applied in everyday life by using them as a tool for self-reflection and personal growth.
By reading and reflecting on his teachings, individuals can gain a deeper understanding of the power of their imagination and beliefs, and how they shape their reality.
By focusing their imagination on positive outcomes and feelings, they can also create more positive experiences in their lives and manifest the things they desire.
In addition, his teachings can also help individuals overcome limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns, freeing them to live a more fulfilling and abundant life.