Redefining reality

Denis Waitley - American motivational speaker, writer and consultant

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

William Blake - English poet, painter, and printmaker

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Richard Wagner - German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor

Imagination creates reality.

Duane Michals - American photographer

Trust that little voice in your head that says, ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’; and then do it.

John Barrymore - American actor on stage, screen and radio

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Roy T. Bennett - Author 

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

Rumi - Poet

You are a volume in the divine book. A mirror to the power that created the universe. Whatever you want, ask it of yourself. Whatever you’re looking for can only be found inside of you.

Louis D. Brandeis - American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme 

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

John C. Maxwell - American author, speaker, and pastor

If you don't try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

Walt Disney - American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer 

I never knew what I couldn't do so I was willing to try anything.

Ernest Holmes - American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Marie Forleo - American entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author

Your potential is limitless. You are unique, valuable, capable, and worthy of the dreams in your heart. Most of all, you have what it takes to transform and transcend whatever challenges you face.

Robin Sharma - Canadian writer, best known for his The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book series

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

Roger von Oech - American speaker, conference organizer, author, and toy-maker whose focus has been on the study of creativity

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

James Allen - British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

John Eliot - Decorated professor of management and performance psychology

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

John Eliot - Decorated professor of management and performance psychology

Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.

Napoleon Hill - American self-help author. He is known best for his book Think and Grow Rich which is among the 10 best selling self-help books of all time

“There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.”

Paulo Coelho - Brazilian lyricist and novelist, best known for his novel The Alchemist

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Jack Canfield - American author, motivational speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, and the actions you take.

Michael Bernard Beckwith - New Thought minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Beverly Hills, California, a New Thought church with a congregation estimated in excess of 8,000 members

There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, ‘There’s not enough good to go around. There’s lack and there’s limitation and there’s just not enough.’ The truth is that there’s more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is more than enough love. There’s more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature. There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That's the truth.

Michael Bernard Beckwith - New Thought minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Beverly Hills, California, a New Thought church with a congregation estimated in excess of 8,000 members

You can start with nothing. And out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.

Esther Hicks - American channeler, inspirational speaker, and author. She has co-written nine books with her late husband Jerry Hicks, presented numerous workshops on the law of attraction with Abraham-Hicks Publications and appeared in the original version of the 2006 film The Secret

Most people do not realize that thinking about something is inviting the essence of that “something” into their experience.

Esther Hicks - American channeler, inspirational speaker, and author. She has co-written nine books with her late husband Jerry Hicks, presented numerous workshops on the law of attraction with Abraham-Hicks Publications and appeared in the original version of the 2006 film The Secret

You get what you feel about what you think about.

Todd Henry - Author, international speaker, consultant, and advisor

Great work results when you stop doing only what you know you can do and instead begin pursuing what you believe you might be able to do with a little focused effort.

Steve Chandler - Author of 30 books that have been translated into over 25 languages. His personal success coaching, public speaking and business consulting have been used by CEOs, top professionals, major universities, and over 30 Fortune 500 companies

Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention.

Robert Root-Bernstein - Professor of physiology at Michigan State University. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius grant."

If you can’t conceive of things that don’t exist, you can’t create anything new. If you can’t dream up worlds that might be, then you are limited to the worlds other people describe.

Matthew Syed - British journalist, author, broadcaster and former table tennis player. He competed as an English table tennis international, and was the English number one for many years

Creativity is, in many respects, a response.

Phil Knight - American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., and was previously chairman and CEO of the company

“So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.

Raymond Charles Barker - Leader and author in the New Thought spiritual movement and, specifically, in Religious Science

God operates in each us as us . We determine our own destinies.

Michael Phelps - American former competitive swimmer and the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals, Olympic gold medals in individual events, and Olympic medals in individual events

With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

Gary Mack - Leading sports psychology consultant and counselor who has worked with athletes in the NBA, NFL, NHL, WNBA, and Major League Baseball

Don’t look where you don’t want to go.

Brian Tracy - Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development author. He is the author of over eighty books that have been translated into dozens of languages. His popular books are Earn What You're Really Worth, Eat That Frog!, No Excuses!

If it’s to be, it’s up to me!

Earl Nightingale - American radio speaker and author, dealing mostly with the subjects of human character development, motivation, and meaningful existence

You become what you think about.

Ken Robinson - British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies

One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity.

Abraham H. Maslow - American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority

Creativeness comes partly out of the unconscious, i.e., is a healthy regression, a temporary turning away from the real world.

Kenneth Baum - Author, professional speaker, and the creator of the #1 Performance Psychology System in the World. A recognized authority on mental strategies that gets results in sports, business, and life, his teachings are often the missing link to success 

The images you visualize are likely to come true, so make sure that these pictures are the ones you want to become part of your reality. 

Wallace D. Wattles - American New Thought writer. He remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.

Gay Hendricks - Psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth, relationships, and body intelligence

In my life I’ve discovered that if I cling to the notion that something’s not possible, I’m arguing in favor of limitation. And if I argue for my limitations, I get to keep them.

Shad Helmstetter - Author of more than twenty books in the field of personal growth. His ground-breaking classic on the subject of self-talk, "What to Say When You Talk to Your Self," is published in over 70 countries, and is in its 45th printing in 30+ years of publication

We control with our own minds most everything in our lives, including our health, our careers, our relationships, and our futures.

David Allen - American productivity consultant best known for the creation of a time management method called "Getting Things Done"

Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.

David Allen - American productivity consultant best known for the creation of a time management method called "Getting Things Done"

You must use your mind to get things off your mind.

Robert Fritz - American author, management consultant, composer, and filmmaker. He is known for his development of structural dynamics, the study of how structural relationships impact behavior from individuals to organizations

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.