Wallace D. Wattles Quotes (161) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Wallace Delois Wattles; 1860–1911) was an American author. A New Thought writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wattles' best known work is a 1903 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explains how to become wealthy. See website for more info - http://newthoughtlibrary.com/wattlesWallace/bio_wattles.htm
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“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 Science of Getting Rich
“By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.”
― Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich
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
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
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. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.
― Wallace D. Wattles
You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.
― Wallace D. Wattles
You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way.
― Wallace D. Wattles
The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
― 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
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
― Wallace D. Wattles
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
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
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
Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.
― Wallace D. Wattles
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
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
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
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
Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.
― 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
In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.
― 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
"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.
― Wallace D. Wattles
I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.
― 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
Abandon everything you have outgrown.
― 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
An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.
― 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
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
Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.
― Wallace D. Wattles
It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
― Wallace D. Wattles
The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.
― 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
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
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
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.
― 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
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
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
You are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Learn to pay attention to your body with the relaxed attitude of gratitude, trust, curiosity and unconditional love rather than being pushed around by habit, fear, anxiety, social customs, other people's schedules and other people's ideas about what is good for you.
― Wallace D. Wattles
To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.
― 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 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
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
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
You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.
― 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
You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.
― 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
Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.
― 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
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
― Wallace D. Wattles
You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.
― Wallace D. Wattles
To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.
― 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
If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.
― Wallace D. Wattles
The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.
― 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
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
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Success in life is becoming what you want to be.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Doing what you want to do is life.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.
― 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
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
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
The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.
― 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
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
There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world.
― 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
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.
― Wallace D. Wattles
The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.
― Wallace D. Wattles
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
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
― Wallace D. Wattles
The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude
― 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 will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.
― 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 wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.
― 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
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
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
Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.
― 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
...you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.
― Wallace D. Wattles
You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power
― Wallace D. Wattles
I will trust and not be afraid.
― 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
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
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
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
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
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
Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.
― Wallace D. Wattles
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Give every person more in use value than you take from them in cash value.
― 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
Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.
― 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
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
The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.
― 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
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
Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
― 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
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
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
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
... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
― 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
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
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
Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.
Wallace D. Wattles
It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.
― Wallace D. Wattles
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
Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.
― Wallace D. Wattles
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
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
It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.
― 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
There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence 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 toward you.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.
― 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
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
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
Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
― 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 are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches.
― Wallace D. Wattles
You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.
― 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
By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.
― 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
I surrender myself to conscious unity with the highest.
― Wallace D. Wattles
Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.
― Wallace D. Wattles
The purpose of nature is the advancement and development of life.
― 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 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.
― Wallace D. Wattles
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