Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

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

I surrender myself to conscious unity with the highest.

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

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

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

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.

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

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.

You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul.

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

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

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

All belief begins in the will to believe.

Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world

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.

It is within the power of every man to become great.

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

You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all.

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

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

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

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

Abandon everything you have outgrown.

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.

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.

Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.

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

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

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.

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

Success action is cumulative in its results.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.

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

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

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

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.

In order to get what you want, you must act.

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.

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.