Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

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

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.

Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.

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.

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.

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.

Doing what you want to do is life.

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.

The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

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

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.

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

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

I will trust and not be afraid.

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

There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law if you are to get the results you seek.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.

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

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

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

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.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

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.

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

...you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

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.

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.

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.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

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

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.

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

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

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.