Top 100 Wallace D. Wattles Quotes
#1. You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.
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#2. When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.
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#3. Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.
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#6. 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.
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#7. You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all.
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#14. The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.
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#15. There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.
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#17. You have that within you which is ever impelling you toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of Power; you must obey it without question.
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#18. 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.
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#19. A thought is a substace, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.
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#20. Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
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#21. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.
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#22. 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.
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#23. You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
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#24. The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.
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#25. Because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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#26. 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.
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#29. Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.
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#30. It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.
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#31. 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.
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#32. You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.
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#36. 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.
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#37. There is a law of gratitude, and if you are to get the results you seek, it is absolutely necessary that you should observe this law.
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#38. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you.
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#39. Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.
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#43. 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.
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#44. By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it
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#45. Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.
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#46. It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.
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#49. God gives you all there is; your only question is how much to take of the unlimited supply.
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#50. 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.
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#52. Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.
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#53. 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.
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#54. The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
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#55. There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world.
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#56. Give every person more in use value than you take from them in cash value.
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#57. 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.
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#58. The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
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#59. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
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#60. 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.
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#61. No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.
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#62. 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.
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#63. All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
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#67. 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.
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#68. Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.
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#70. A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.
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#71. Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.
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#72. You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.
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#73. No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise..
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#74. Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.
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#75. The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude
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#77. Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.
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#78. Every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow-and inspires them to do so.
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#80. 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.
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#81. Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.
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#82. I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.
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#83. 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.
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#84. To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.
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#85. Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world
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#88. Desire for increased wealth is not evil ... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.
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#89. Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.
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#90. 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.
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#91. There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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#98. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.
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#100. No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.
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