No one succeeds without a good amount of fantasy. Believe in yourself and your dreams, even when everyone around you is telling you that you’re being delusional. What others think of you doesn’t matter: what matters is what you think of yourself. Success starts with believing in yourself and your dreams – so start dreaming big! Here are some inspirational quotes to help get you started.

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“I am not a failure because I have failed, I am a failure because I have given up.

1. My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low–budget films to high–end fantasy/science fiction. — Michael Sheen

2. You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike — Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling

3. Oh , You Want To Be My World , What Have You Done To Gain My Heart . It’s a Fantasy, Only In Your Mind — Sami Abouzid

4. The evolution of mind requires a diet of knowledge. — Susan Waterwyk, Lantamyra: A Tapestry of Fantasy

5. Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them. — Noel Fielding

6. I don’t think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane. — Martin Scorsese

7. Fantasy and reality often overlap. — Walt Disney

8. I’d like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. — Paul Gauguin

9. I never dreamed in a million years that ‘The Lord of the Rings’ would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations. — Peter Jackson

10. Sometimes even the best of us have to lose ourselves in fantasy to survive reality. — Maxi Bransdale

11. [religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil. — Peter Atkins

12. We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance. — Patti Stanger

13. I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you’re working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity. — Werner Herzog

14. I get so tired of people saying, ‘Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that’, and I’m like, ‘Well no, fantasy is reality’, that’s what Lewis Carroll showed in his work. — Tim Burton

15. Reading a fantasy book is a commitment…a commitment to adventure…a commitment to bravery. You make that commitment and you reap the benefits…of epicness. — polandbananasBOOKS

16. All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. — Walt Disney

17. Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. — Terry Pratchett

18. At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape. — Willard Wigan

19. When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn’t worth a damn. — Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

20. There is no burden in love, because love is always selfish — Novellina A., Fantasy

21. There is always room in my life for a unicorn.(i.e. fantasy) — Renata Ammazzini, Nora & het bloemenelfje

22. I have such a rich fantasy life, I can’t help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head. — Mindy Kaling

23. To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another’s dreams. — Rob Shepherd

24. Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl––there isn’t one! Because reality is more fantastic. — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

25. Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. — Tom Stoppard

26. Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no–one knows what to do with. — Tracy Cooper–Posey

27. I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. — Ray Bradbury

28. What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that. — Roger Ebert

29. Fantasy gives meaning to the suffering. — Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

30. I’d like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. — Paul Gauguin

31. I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in. — Moryah DeMott, Timeless

32. Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. — Steven Spielberg

33. Personally, I think the ‘Christian family’ should be called a Christian fantasy. — Ruth Hurmence Green

34. I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms–but not for a living. — Will Self

35. Because I love him so much and it hurts — Novellina A., Fantasy

36. Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. — Ralph Bakshi

37. A poet’s fantasy: Hiring a rapper to rap his rhymes. — Steven Chopade

38. One man’s fantasy is another man’s reality! — Ramana Pemmaraju

39. When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy. — Ray Davies

40. I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms–but not for a living. — Will Self

41. I’m a big fan of the ’80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like ‘Krull’ and ‘Clash of the Titans’ and ‘Time Bandits’ and all that stuff. — Zooey Deschanel

42. We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance. — Patti Stanger

43. I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. — Sarah Zettel

44. I get so tired of people saying, ‘Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that’, and I’m like, ‘Well no, fantasy is reality’, that’s what Lewis Carroll showed in his work. — Tim Burton

45. Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl––there isn’t one! Because reality is more fantastic. — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

46. Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no–one knows what to do with. — Tracy Cooper–Posey

47. Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. — Ralph Bakshi

48. The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. — Sam Harris

49. A poet’s fantasy: Hiring a rapper to rap his rhymes. — Steven Chopade

50. Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes! — Salvador Dali

Fantasy is a powerful tool that can help us escape the mundane and explore the extraordinary. It provides us with an opportunity to explore our imaginations and discover things we never thought were possible. These quotes about fantasy remind us that the possibilities are endless and that the power of our imaginations can take us to places we never thought we could go. So, what are you waiting for? Go explore the realm of the unknown and unlock the door to a world of fantasy.