Neville Lancelot Goddard was a 20th-century American writer known for his works on the Bible, spirituality, self-help, self-reflection, consciousness, the power of imagination, and other related topics.
He delivered several lectures and authored a number of books on the aforementioned themes and subjects during his lifetime.
Some of his greatest books are:
- The Power of Awareness
- The Law and the Promise
- Feeling Is The Secret
- Prayer The Art Of Believing
In this guide, we have collected over 100 of Neville Goddard’s quotes on life, spirituality, consciousness, goals, success, mindfulness, and imagination.
Read on to discover these popular quotes full of wisdom that will give you some insights into Goddard’s mind as well as new perspectives on life.
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Neville Goddard’s 10 Most Famous Quotes
1. “An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable and transforms or destroys the undesirable.”
2. “Nothing comes from without; all things come from within – from the subconscious.”
3. “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.”
4. “Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.”
5. “Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.”
6. “To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself.”
7. “You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.”
8. “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.”
9. “Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.”
10. “Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.”
Neville Goddard Quotes on Life
11. “If you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it.”
12. “Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”
13. “Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.”
14. “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.”
15. “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.”
16. “Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.”
17. “The circumstances of your life reflect what you have been saying.”
18. “Everyone is free to create his world as he wants it if he knows that the whole thing is responding to him.”
19. “Everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves. That which we will not affirm as true of ourselves cannot develop in our life.”
20. “The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.”
21. “What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you live psychologically; and where you live psychologically, determines how you live here in the outer visible world.”
22. “You must be conscious of being healthy if you are to know what health is. You must be conscious of being secure if you are to know what security is.”
Neville Goddard Quotes on Spirituality and Consciousness
23. “Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality.”
24. “It is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.”
25. “Simply dare to assume you are what you want to be and you will compel everyone to play their part.”
26. “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.”
27. “Predetermine what you want to hear and listen until you hear it.”
28. “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.”
29. “Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want.”
30. “Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation.”
31. “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.”
32. “The beliefs in the potency of drugs to heal, diets to strengthen, moneys to secure, are the values or money changers that must be thrown.”
33. “Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.”
34. “Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.”
35. “Your inner being is he who men call God.”
36. “Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.”
37. “The spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire.”
38. “Your body is an emotional filter and bears the unmistakable marks of your prevalent emotions.”
39. “Consciousness follows vision, and I step into the vision and explore a world just as real as this.”
40. “The conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions in sleep.”
41. “Tell no man of your spiritual romance. Lock your secret within you in joy, confident and happy that someday you will bear the son of your lover by expressing and possessing the nature of your impression.”
42. “The world was constructed in the mind's eye, out of things unseen by the mortal eye, and made alive by faith.”
43. “No man can lift you to the level you desire. The power to ascend is within yourself; it is your consciousness.”
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Neville Goddard Quotes on Goals
44. “Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.”
45. “The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.”
46. “Begin with self.”
47. “Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.”
48. “To desire a state is to have it.”
49. “There is nothing more important than developing your imagination to transform your life from the inside world of your thoughts and feelings to the outside world of your results and manifestations.”
50. “Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future.”
51. “Man’s responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.”
52. “Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live.”
53. “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. Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be.”
54. “Now, here’s a practical technique: the first thing you must do is know exactly what you want in this world. When you know exactly what you want, make as lifelike a representation as possible of what you would see and touch, and what you would.”
55. “Actually, you are destined to reach the point where you realise that through your own desire you can consciously create your successive destinies.”
56. “The numberless unrealized hopes and ambitions of man are the seeds which are buried within the consciousness or virgin womb of man.”
57. “If you want to change yourself, become indifferent to things you cannot change – other peoples’ opinions and events clearly outside of your control – and focus inwardly. How you treat other people is no different than how you treat your own thoughts.”
58. “Therefore, when you know what you want, you must deliberately focus your attention on the feeling of your wish fulfilled until that feeling fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness.”
Neville Goddard Quotes on Success
59. “Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.”
60. “Nothing comes from without. All things come from within.”
61. “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.”
62. “All you need is time… and you have it…now!”
63. “Dream better than the best you know.”
64. “A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.”
65. “There is no limit to your creative power.”
66. “Command any idea to clothe itself in form.”
67. “Never claim, “I shall be that,” Let all claims from now on be, “I am that I am.””
68. “You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality.”
69. “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.”
70. “Somewhere within this realm of imagination there is a mood, a feeling of the wish fulfilled which, if appropriated, means success to you.”
71. “To the unenlightened man this will seem to be all fantasy, yet all progress comes from those who do not take the accepted view, nor accept the world as it is.”
72. “All is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself cannot be realised by you.”
Neville Goddard Quotes on Love
73. “Love is not love if there is no beloved.”
74. “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.”
75. “Love is our birth right. Love is the fundamental necessity of our life. Do not go seeking for that which you are.”
76. “If one imagines unlovely things for another, they are going to produce them – not in the other, but in themselves.”
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Neville Goddard Quotes on Failure
77. “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.”
78. “Don’t condemn yourself for the state into which you have fallen. If you don’t like it, move into another.”
79. “Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.”
80. “Never go to sleep feeling discouraged or dissatisfied. Never sleep in the consciousness of failure.”
81. “The individual’s inner speech and actions attract the conditions of his life.”
82. “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.”
83. “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.”
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Neville Goddard Quotes on Mindfulness and Imagination
84. “Determined imagination is the beginning of all successful operation. The imagination, alone, is the means of fulfilling the intention.”
85. “You believe in God? Believe also in your imagination.”
86. “Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.”
87. “Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.”
88. “Imagination is seeing with the eye of God”
89. “Your Imagination is you yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world.”
90. “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.”
91. “Imagination is the only redemptive power in the universe.”
92. “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. The power of attention shows itself the sure guarantee of an inner force.”
93. “What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention.”
94. “A change of feeling is a change of destiny.”
95. “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.”
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Neville Goddard Quotes on Wealth
96. “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.”
97. “Assume wealth knowingly.”
98. “To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.”
99. “I have a lavish, steady, dependable income, consistent with integrity and mutual benefit.”
100. “Life does not care whether you call yourself rich or poor; strong or weak. It will eternally reward you with that which you claim as true of yourself.”
What Was Your Favourite Neville Goddard Quote?
Here, I’ve collected and presented over 100 of Neville Goddard’s quotes on various aspects of life and reality.
I hope these timeless quotes offer a new perspective on life and consciousness and will remain relevant in any age due to the wisdom they impart.
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