Emile Coué

The faculty of freely determining certain acts

imagination which gains the victory over the will

men imagine that they must go forward

Thus we who are so proud of our will, who believe that we are free to act as we like, are in reality nothing but wretched puppets of which our imagination holds all the strings. We only cease to be puppets when we have learned to guide our imagination.

The influence of the imagination upon the moral and physical being of mankind

on the contrary you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains

the will must not be brought into play in practising autosuggestion

When the will and the imagination are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception

the force of the imagination is in direct ratio to the square of the will

one does not add to the other, but one is multiplied by the other