Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

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.

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.

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.

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.

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

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.

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

Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.

Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.

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

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

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.

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.

No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.

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.

It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I will trust and not be afraid.

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

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

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power

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.

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.

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.

There is no lack of opportunity.

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.

All belief begins in the will to believe.

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

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.

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.

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

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.

Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.

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

The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude

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.

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

To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.

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 can have nothing to fear.

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.

Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.

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

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.

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

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

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.

Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.

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.

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

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

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

Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude.

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

The only service you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

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.

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.

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.

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.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

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

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

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.

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

You are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Give every person more in use value than you take from them in cash value.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich; while those who do not do things in this Certain Way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.

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

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

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

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.