Wallace D. Wattles quotes:

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.

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.

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

"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.

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.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

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

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

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.

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

A thought is a substace, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.

Abandon everything you have outgrown.

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

All belief begins in the will to believe.

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

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

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

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

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

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.

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

But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.

By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it

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

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

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.

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

Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.

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

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.

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

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

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

Do not wait for a change of environment before you act. Cause a change of environment through action. You can act upon your present environment so as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment.

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

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.

Doing what you want to do is life.

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.

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.

Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

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.

Getting rich isn't about doing certain things. It's about doing things in the certain way!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.

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

Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.

I surrender myself to conscious unity with the highest.

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

I will trust and not be afraid.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.

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

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

It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.

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.

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

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

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude.

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.

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

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

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

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