Wallace D. Wattles Quotes & Sayings

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

The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich; while those who do not do things in this Certain Way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor. — Wallace D. Wattles

Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do. — Wallace D. Wattles

You can have nothing to fear. — Wallace D. Wattles

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed. — Wallace D. Wattles

When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you. — Wallace D. Wattles

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

I will trust and not be afraid. — Wallace D. Wattles

Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Abandon everything you have outgrown. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Do not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you. — Wallace D. Wattles

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. — Wallace D. Wattles

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be. — Wallace D. Wattles

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. — Wallace D. Wattles

It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase. — Wallace D. Wattles

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it. — Wallace D. Wattles

The only service you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give 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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. — Wallace D. Wattles

Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it. Desire is a manifestation of power. — Wallace D. Wattles

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary. — Wallace D. Wattles

There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world. — Wallace D. Wattles

You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith. — Wallace D. Wattles

Faith When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good. — Wallace D. Wattles

By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship. — Wallace D. Wattles

There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again. — Wallace D. Wattles

Success action is cumulative in its results. — Wallace D. Wattles

You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

If you are not in an environment where there is scope for your best powers and talents you can move in due time; but meanwhile you can be great where you are. Lincoln was as great when he was a backwoods lawyer as when he was President; as a backwoods lawyer he did common things in a great way, and that made him President. Had he waited until he reached Washington to begin to be — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance. — Wallace D. Wattles

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

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

No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. — Wallace D. Wattles

Every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow-and inspires them to do so. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

There is no lack of opportunity. — Wallace D. Wattles

If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three - body, mind, or soul - can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things. — Wallace D. Wattles

Doing what you want to do is life. — Wallace D. Wattles

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man — Wallace D. Wattles

If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent. — Wallace D. Wattles

Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come, and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought. — Wallace D. Wattles

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

A thought is a substace, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing. — Wallace D. Wattles

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