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title: "18 Imagine Better Quotes by 18 authors"
description: "Browse 18 Imagine Better quotes by 18 authors. Discover the best Imagine Better sayings and thoughts."
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> [It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/it-is-impossible-to-imagine-anything-which-better-becomes-a-ruler/)

[Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/)

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> [When we think about the future, just imagine the better life and I'm sure it would be :)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reny/when-we-think-about-the-future-just-imagine-the-better-life-and-i-m/)

[Reny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reny/)

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> [We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-can-succeed-only-by-concert-it-is-not-can-any-of-us-imagine-better/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-furman/once-you-admit-how-bad-it-feels-to-live-in-a-broken-society-you-can/)

[Ezra Furman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-furman/)

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> [Look at the world around you & imagine it in a better way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-kilar/look-at-the-world-around-you-imagine-it-in-a-better-way/)

[Jason Kilar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-kilar/)

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> [Just becouse you can imagine a better version of yourself doesn't mean that you have to hate who you are now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nanny-farrell/just-becouse-you-can-imagine-a-better-version-of-yourself-doesn-t/)

[Nanny Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nanny-farrell/)

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> [We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling-3/we-do-not-need-magic-to-change-the-world-we-carry-all-the-power-we/)

[J K Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling-3/)

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> [In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-keating/in-the-end-the-key-ingredient-for-public-life-is-imagination-you/)

[Paul Keating](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-keating/)

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> [“Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-banks/perhaps-we-think-up-our-own-destinies-and-so-in-a-sense-deserve/)

[Iain Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-banks/)

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> [To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lowy/to-imagine-a-better-life-for-yourself-and-your-family-and-to-leave/)

[Frank Lowy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lowy/)

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> [We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadia-murad/we-must-not-only-imagine-a-better-future-for-women-children-and/)

[Nadia Murad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadia-murad/)

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> [we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/we-had-made-love-without-love-half-dressed-most-of-the-time-and/)

[Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> [If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-forbes-nash-jr/if-things-are-not-so-good-you-may-be-one-to-imagine-something-better/)

[John Forbes Nash, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-forbes-nash-jr/)

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> [“I used to imagine Better was a place you could get to. A moment when I would look around and see that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-j-miller/i-used-to-imagine-better-was-a-place-you-could-get-to-a-moment-when-i/)

[Sam J. Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-j-miller/)

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> [I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deval-patrick/i-think-that-hope-that-ability-to-envision-to-imagine-a-better-way/)

[Deval Patrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deval-patrick/)

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> [I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-lyonne/i-feel-like-i-just-have-such-the-blood-and-bones-of-a-new-yorker-that/)

[Natasha Lyonne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-lyonne/)

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> [I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-taylor-gatto/i-feel-ashamed-that-so-many-of-us-cannot-imagine-a-better-way-to-do/)

[John Taylor Gatto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-taylor-gatto/)

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> [“Precisely when we should be shouldering the historic task of investing this rich, safe, and healthy existence with meaning, we’ve buried utopia…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/precisely-when-we-should-be-shouldering-the-historic-task-of/)

[Rutger Bregman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rutger-bregman/)

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