Top 214 Quotes & Sayings by Wallace D. Wattles - Page 4

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

You can have nothing to fear.

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

The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does.

I surrender myself to conscious unity with the highest.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Doing what you want to do is life.

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.

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.

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

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.

Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude.

There is no lack of opportunity.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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 desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

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