Wallace d. wattles quotes

Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.

You are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly.

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.

The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world.

You must eliminate from your thoughts all doubt and uncertainty that you will get well; that you will succeed; that you will gain your point and get what you want. You may have some uncertainty as to methods, but you must have none as to ultimate results. You may not feel certain that you will succeed today, or next week, but you must feel certain that you will succeed sometime.

Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

All belief begins in the will to believe.

Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.

Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.

Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.

If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.

Begin to do small things in a great way...You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act.

You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.

The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ..... this vital energy is the only power by which the body may be healed, repaired, renewed or maintained

Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose

The 'advancing man' in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes.

I will trust and not be afraid.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.

Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do.

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to do. Man’s knowledge is comparatively limited and so his wisdom must be small, unless he can connect his mind with a knowledge greater than his own and draw from it, by inspiration, the wisdom that his own limitations deny him. Only God knows all truth; therefore only God can have Real wisdom or know the right thing to do at all times, and man can receive wisdom from God. Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the Right Way.

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.

Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.

The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

The purpose of nature is the advancement and development of life.

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world

The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations; he must forsake every course of action that is not in accord with his highest ideals.

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.

Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.

All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.

A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment or, in other words, his right to be rich.

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power becomes a mastermind. That person can conquer fate and can have what he or she wants.

Learn to pay attention to your body with the relaxed attitude of gratitude, trust, curiosity and unconditional love rather than being pushed around by habit, fear, anxiety, social customs, other people's schedules and other people's ideas about what is good for you.

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe. A thought in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Getting rich isn't about doing certain things. It's about doing things in the certain way!

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.

The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which all things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you everything you desire. And third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and profound gratitude.

There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it

It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.

Doing what you want to do is life.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.

Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them.

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.

You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.

Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.

Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.

If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.

Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.

The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.

Abandon everything you have outgrown.

You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.

The only service that you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give to the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities.

The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be, and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.

To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way.

Statement of Being. There is one Mind, and I AM that Mind. That Mind is eternal, and it is Life. I am that Mind, and I am ETERNAL LIFE. That Mind knows no disease; I am that Mind, and I am HEALTH. That Mind is the source of all Power, and cannot know doubt nor fear; I am that M ind, and I am POW ER and PEACE. That M ind knows only Truth and knows ALL truth; I am that M ind, and I am KNOW LEDGE and WISDOM . All things created and uncreated, are in that Mind; I am that Mind, and I am WEALTH and PLENTY. I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and the LIFE; the LIGHT in me shines out to bless the world.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can , but never hurry.