Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

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.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

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

You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.

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

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.

To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

Abandon everything you have outgrown.

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

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

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

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.

Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.

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.

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

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

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.

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

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.

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

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.

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 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.

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

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

You are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

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

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.

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

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

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.

You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.

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

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

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

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

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.

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.

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.