Wattles Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — 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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

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

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

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. — 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

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

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough, keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

God gives you all there is; your only question is how much to take of the unlimited supply. — 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

Beauty such as theirs was something with which one lived joyously - racing with the wind, with storm and snow, dancing in the frost or among the golden wattles, galloping, galloping in the spring sun. Life might be dangerous, with beauty that was so difficult to hide, but life was always and ever had been very, very good — Elyne Mitchell

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

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts. — Wallace D. Wattles

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

You have that within you which is ever impelling you toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of Power; you must obey it without question. — 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

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

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

You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned or lowly their station, the upward way is open for you. There is no such thing as inheriting a fixed mental position; no matter how small the mental capital we receive from our parents, it may be increased; no man is incapable of growth. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude. — Wallace D. Wattles

A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him. — 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

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

Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Lake Isle of Innisfree

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core. — W.B.Yeats

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

You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

There is a law of gratitude, and if you are to get the results you seek, it is absolutely necessary that you should observe this law. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether. — Wallace D. Wattles

Our gratitude liberates an energy within us that immediately expands into the formless substance, where it is instantly returned to us in kind. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

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

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness. — 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

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

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 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

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

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it — Wallace D. Wattles

I used the phrase 'a certain age.' What I mean by this is the age people are in their heads. It's usually thirty to thirty-four. Nobody is forty in their head. When it comes to your internal age, chin wattles and relentless liver spots mean nothing. — Douglas Coupland

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

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, the power to do it is strong. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — 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

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

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

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Your place in life is not fixed by heredity. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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