Quotes from Émile Coué

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

C'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte sur la volonté, sans aucune exception. - It is always the imagination that wins over the will, without exception.

If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it however difficult it may be. If 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.

Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so.

Happiness, they say, can't be ordered like a steak in a restaurant. Like love, its very essence is freedom. This is true. But like love, happiness can be wooed and won.

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Si vous vous persuadez à vous-même que vous pouvez faire une chose quelconque, pourvu qu'elle soit possible, vous la ferez, si difficile qu'elle puisse être. Si, au contraire, vous vous imaginez ne pas pouvoir faire la chose la plus simple du monde, il vous est impossible de la faire et les taupinières deviennent pour vous des montagnes infranchissables.

De même il suffit de penser qu'une douleur s'en va pour sentir en effet cette douleur disparaître peu à peu, et, inversement, il suffit de penser que l'on souffre pour que l'on sente immédiatement venir la souffrance. - In the same way, it is enough to think that a pain is going away to feel this pain disappearing little by little, and, conversely, it is enough to think that one is suffering for one to immediately feel the suffering coming.

La neurasthénie, le bégaiement, les phobies, la kleptomanie, certaines paralysies, etc., ne sont autre chose que le résultat de l'action de l'inconscient sur l'être physique ou moral. - Neurasthenia, stuttering, phobias, kleptomania, certain paralyzes, etc., are nothing other than the result of the action of the unconscious on the physical or moral being.

Influence de l'imagination sur l'être moral et l'être physique de l'homme.

Quand la volonté et l'imagination sont en lutte, c'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte, sans aucune exception

Todos os dias sob todos os pontos de vista vou cada vez melhor.

Toute pensée occupant uniquement notre esprit devient vraie pour nous et a tendance à se transformer en acte. - Any thought that occupies our mind becomes true for us and tends to turn into action.

Ainsi entendue, l'autosuggestion n'est autre chose que l'hypnotisme tel que je le comprends et que je définis par ces simples mots : Influence de l'imagination sur l'être moral et l'être physique de l'homme. - Understood thus, autosuggestion is nothing other than hypnotism as I understand it and which I define by these simple words: Influence of the imagination on the moral being and the physical being of man.

Toute maladie, presque sans exception, peut céder à l'autosuggestion, si hardie et si invraisemblable que puisse paraître mon affirmation ; je ne dis pas cède toujours, mais peut céder, ce qui est différent. - Any disease, almost without exception, can give way to autosuggestion. However bold and implausible my assertion may seem; I don't say always yield, but can yield, which is different.

Il est à noter que le propre des idées autosuggérées est d'exister en nous à notre insu et que nous ne pouvons savoir qu'elles y existent que par les effets qu'elles produisent.) - It should be noted that the characteristic of autosuggested ideas is to exist in us without our knowledge; and that we can only know that they exist there by the effects they produce.

Every day, in every way. I'm getting better and better.

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else.

Always think that what you have to do is easy and it will become so.

The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.

If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be.

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.

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