Top 100 Wallace Wattles Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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.
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#5. Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.
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#7. THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#11. 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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#12. Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.
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#20. It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.
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#22. Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.
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#23. 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.
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#24. To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.
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#25. Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.
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#26. 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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#27. There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world.
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#28. 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
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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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#32. No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.
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#33. 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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#35. 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.
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#36. Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.
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#37. 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.
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#39. You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
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#40. Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.
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#41. God gives you all there is; your only question is how much to take of the unlimited supply.
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#42. Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
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#46. Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.
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#47. Getting rich isn't about doing certain things. It's about doing things in the certain way!
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#48. By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it
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#49. 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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#51. 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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#52. You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all.
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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.
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#56. 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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#57. 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.
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#59. 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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#60. Our gratitude liberates an energy within us that immediately expands into the formless substance, where it is instantly returned to us in kind.
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#61. You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.
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#62. That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.
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#63. In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.
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#64. The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.
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#66. You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.
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#67. 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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#68. Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.
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#69. 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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#70. 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.
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#71. Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose
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#72. The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.
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#73. Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
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#74. The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.
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#75. When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.
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#76. 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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#77. 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.
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#80. It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.
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#81. You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power
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#82. 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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#83. Because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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#84. The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.
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#85. 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.
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#86. 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.
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#87. 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.
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#88. You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
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#89. 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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#90. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.
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#91. Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
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#92. 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.
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#93. A thought is a substace, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.
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#94. 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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#96. 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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#98. 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.
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#99. This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.
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#100. 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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