192 verified quotes
Neville Goddard quotes: 192 verified, with source and timestamp
Every quote here was checked word for word against the restored lecture transcripts and the texts of his books, and each lecture quote plays the exact words from the recording. Many lines that circulate under his name online cannot be traced to a lecture or a book; a quote missing here may still be his, but this page holds only lines we could check.
His best-known lines, where he says them
Ten of his best-known lines, in his words as recorded. Each one links to the moment in the lecture where he says it. For the single line quoted most often, see what is Neville Goddard’s most famous quote.
“Even though at the moment of the assumption it was denied by reason, an assumption though false, if persisted in will harden into fact.”
I Am Reality Called Imagination lecture, at 40:23 Play 8 s “Imagining creates reality. Believe it. Because imagining is God in action.”
Is Causation Imaginal? lecture, at 30:38 Play 6 s “How do I enter the state? I assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. That's all that I do.”
The Pattern of Scripture Is Real lecture, at 36:55 Play 8 s “Dare to live in the end of your dream as though it were true.”
Signs and Wonders lecture, at 28:15 Play 3 s “The only God is your own wonderful human imagination. The only name forever and forever that is his name is I Am.”
I Am Reality Called Imagination lecture, at 11:32 Play 10 s “Your whole vast world is yourself pushed out. Everything in the world is yourself pushed out, and you manipulate it by your imaginal act.”
The Secret of Imagining Class Lecture lecture, at 16:52 Play 10 s “Faith does not give reality to the unseen things. Faith is loyalty to unseen reality.”
Faith Is Loyalty to Unseen Reality lecture, at 39:00 Play 9 s “Take a noble concept of yourself, something noble, something wonderful, something that you would like to live with, assume that you are it, and walk as though you were”
When and Where Did It Happen lecture, at 39:03 Play 10 s “All objective reality is solely produced through imagining.”
Live in the End lecture, at 13:49 Play 5 s “Whenever you are in doubt, do the loving thing, and you've done the right thing.”
Andrew: 2nd Quality Disciple: Courage lecture, at 38:38 Play 7 s
On imagination
“Imagining creates reality. Believe it. Because imagining is God in action.”
“Experience has convinced me that an assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact, that continuous imagination is sufficient for all things, and all my reasonable plans and actions will never make up for my lack of continuous imagination.”
“I am telling you who I know to be God. I tell you over and over again, God is your own wonderful human imagination. And all things are possible to God. Therefore, all things are possible to your imagination.”
“Imagination is the beginning of the growth of all forms, and faith is the substance out of which they are formed.”
On feeling
“A change of feeling is a change of destiny.”
“Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious.”
“How do I enter the state? I assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. That's all that I do.”
“The art of life is to sustain the feeling of the wish fulfilled and let things come to you, not to go after them or think they flee away.”
On God
“The only God is your own wonderful human imagination. The only name forever and forever that is his name is I Am.”
“God is known by experience, or not at all.”
“Man's faith in God is measured by his confidence in himself. For the self of man is God. God's eternal name is I am.”
“There is only God in the world. There is nothing but God. God plays all the parts of the world.”
On love
“You and I can contemplate an ideal, and become it by falling in love with it.”
“Everything else will pass away but love will endure forever.”
“We must be in love if we are to know what love is.”
“Love and hate have a magical transforming power, and we grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.”
On faith
“Faith does not give reality to the unseen things. Faith is loyalty to unseen reality.”
“Faith is feeling or living in the consciousness of being the thing desired.”
“Faith is a facility for experience.”
“So blessed indeed is the man that trusteth in himself, for man’s faith in God will ever be measured by his confidence in himself.”
On self-concept
“The corner-stone on which all things are based is mans concept of himself.”
“He acts as he does, and has the experiences that he does, because his concept of himself is what it is, and for no other reason.”
“The part you play on the world’s stage is determined by your conception of yourself.”
“Take a noble concept of yourself, something noble, something wonderful, something that you would like to live with, assume that you are it, and walk as though you were”
On prayer
“Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want.”
“Prayer is not so much what you ask for, as how you prepare for its reception.”
“prayer to the world means begging, but not in the Bible. it's thanksgiving it's praise it's not petition”
“Prayers to be successful must be claiming rather than begging.”
On revision
“This going into the past and replaying a scene of the past in imagination as it ought to have been played the first time, I call revision - and revision results in repeal.”
“It is a most healthy and productive exercise to daily relive the day as you wish you had lived it, revising the scenes to make them conform to your ideals.”
“He changes his future as he revises his day.”
“Try to revise your day every night before falling asleep.”
On death
“Death is no more than leaving one room for another.”
“When a man dies, as we call him dying, he doesn't cease to be.”
“So I know from my own experience: nothing dies.”
“Death is the most glorious symbol in the mysteries of the expansion of consciousness.”
On money
“It is impossible for the poor man to find wealth in this world no matter how he is surrounded with it until he first claims himself to be wealthy.”
“I have no desire to be a millionaire but I do desire the comfort that a nice steady flow of income allows”
“The rich man, the poor man, the good man, the thief are what they are by virtue of the states from which they view the world.”
“But if you want recognition in this world, you want money in this world, you want comfort in this world, I see nothing wrong in that because these things I would want for myself.”
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