110+ Wallace D. Wattles Quotes On Education, World And Bible

Wallace D. Wattles was an American author who wrote on the topics of health, wealth, and spirituality. He is best known for his 1910 book The Science of Getting Rich, which has inspired millions of people around the world. His other works include The Science of Being Great, The Science of Being Well, and A New Christ. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Wallace D. Wattles on education, life, leadership.

Top 10 Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

1. Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
2. 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.
3. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
4. You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.
5. In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.
6. 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.
7. Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.
8. 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.
9. "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.
10. To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

Wallace D. Wattles Short Quotes

• Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
• It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
• Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.
• 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.
• Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
• Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.
• THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.
• Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
• You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

Wallace D. Wattles Quotes About Life

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Doing what you want to do is life. — Wallace D. Wattles

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Success in life is becoming what you want to be. — Wallace D. Wattles

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining — Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles Quotes About World

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

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 — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

The only service that you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give to the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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 — Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles Quotes About Inspirational

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

I will trust and not be afraid. — Wallace D. Wattles

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing. — Wallace D. Wattles

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. — Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles Quotes About Action

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

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

It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Success action is cumulative in its results. — Wallace D. Wattles

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it — Wallace D. Wattles

Do not wait for a change of environment before you act. Cause a change of environment through action. You can act upon your present environment so as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles Quotes About Strong

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the Right Way. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles Quotes About Desires

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form. — Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles Famous Quotes And Sayings

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good. — Wallace D. Wattles

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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 — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

You can begin to be great to-day in your own home, in your store or office, on the street, everywhere; you can begin to make yourself known as great; and you can do this by doing everything you do in a great way — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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 — Wallace D. Wattles

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. — Wallace D. Wattles

It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing. — Wallace D. Wattles

When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude — Wallace D. Wattles

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

So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do. — Wallace D. Wattles

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man. — Wallace D. Wattles

If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave. — Wallace D. Wattles

The purpose of nature is the advancement and development of life. — Wallace D. Wattles

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. — Wallace D. Wattles

There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man — Wallace D. Wattles

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether. — Wallace D. Wattles

A thought is a substace, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. — Wallace D. Wattles

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity. — Wallace D. Wattles

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues. — Wallace D. Wattles

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive. — Wallace D. Wattles

You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all. — Wallace D. Wattles

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. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing. — Wallace D. Wattles

Life Lessons by Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles teaches that success is not just about material wealth, but about finding inner peace and contentment. He emphasizes the importance of taking action and believing in yourself, as well as the power of gratitude and positive thinking. He encourages readers to focus on what they want to achieve, rather than on what they don't have, in order to manifest their dreams.