Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

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

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.

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.

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

The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you.

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

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

It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

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

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

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.

You cannot give everyone more in cash market value than you take from him, but you can give him more in use value than the cash value of the thing you take from him.

Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.

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.

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.

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

Doing what you want to do is life.

You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

I will trust and not be afraid.

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.

So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.

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

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 object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude.

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

You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

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

You can have nothing to fear.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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