Wallace D. Wattles famous quotes

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Men #Worry #Anxiety

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Men #Thinking #Blood

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Men #Way #Want

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

#Mean #Reaching #Ends

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Ambition #Cutting #Men

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Inspirational

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

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Greatness #Essentials #Bases

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Real #Inspiration #Reading

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

#Crazy #Positivity #Vision

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Giving #Trying #Littles

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Firsts #Succeed

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Strong #Mind #Calm

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

#Money #Expression #Want

Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Gratitude #Blessing #Mind

...you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Humanity

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

#Waiting #Action #Environment

Give every person more in use value than you take from them in cash value.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Giving #Cash #Use

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

#Life #Attention #Surround Yourself

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Wealth #Easy #Source

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

#Gratitude #Practice #Wealth

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Gratitude #Exercise #Connected

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Decision #Healthy #Rich

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
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Gratitude #Exercise #Giving

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

#Needs #Want #Enough

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Opportunity #Waiting #Want

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Want #Becoming #Life Is

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Money #Desire #Riches

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Gratitude #Creative #Vision

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Teacher #Giving #Physicians

It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Numbers #Action #Efficiency

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Poverty #Riches #Enough

You can begin to be great to-day in your own home, in your store or office, on the street, everywhere; you can begin to make yourself known as great; and you can do this by doing everything you do in a great way
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Home #Office #Way

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
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Sleep #May #Energy

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

#Optimistic #World #News

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Men #Creative #Way

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Get Well #Doubt #May

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

#Creative #Desire #Action

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Sacrifice #Helping Others #Ideas

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

#Ideas #Want #Form

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Men #Brain #Doe

Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Perfect

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Thankful #Gratitude #Attitude

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Worry #May #Want

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Gratitude #Vision #Riches

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Ideas #Facts #Circumstances

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Inspirational #Pounds

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Thinking #Way

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
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Men #Giving #World

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Greatness #Thinking

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

#Men #Human Life #Humans

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Real #Eye #Thinking

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
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#People #World #Hardest

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Development #Life Is #Capable

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Destiny #Thinking #Limitless

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Teaching #Needs #World

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

#Mistake #Thinking #Perfect

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

#Dream #People #Mind

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Order #Expression #Giving

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Spiritual #Mean #Men

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

#Soul #Way #Small Things

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Opportunity #Waiting #Want

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Gratitude #Grateful #Character

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Powerful #Greed #Soul

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Gratitude #Advancement #Should

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Men #Faculty

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Spiritual #Men #Want

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.
-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Thinking #Rocks #Creative