If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

The saying links inner vision to outward accomplishment: imagining a goal is framed as the first step toward achieving it, and dreaming of a future self as the seed of personal transformation. Its parallel structure (“imagine/achieve,” “dream/become”) compresses a motivational philosophy common to mid‑20th‑century American self-help and inspirational writing—emphasizing mindset, aspiration, and self-directed change. Read charitably, it argues that possibility begins in the mind and that clear mental pictures can orient effort and perseverance. Read critically, it can also be seen as overstating individual agency by implying that imagination alone reliably leads to success, downplaying structural limits and chance.