Top 214 Quotes & Sayings by Wallace D. Wattles - Page 2

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

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.

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.

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 brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.

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.

All belief begins in the will to believe.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

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

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