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Wallace D. Wattles

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Wallace D. Wattles offers 224 statements that capture the optimism of his New Thought philosophy, presenting ideas about personal power and abundance in a straightforward manner.

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Wallace Delois Wattles was an American New Thought writer. He remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements.

Quick Facts About Wallace D. Wattles

Notable works: The science of getting rich, or, financial success through creative thought

About Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace Delois Wattles was an American New Thought writer. He remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Wallace D. Wattles

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches.

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Inspirational

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I will trust and not be afraid.

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Afraid

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You can have nothing to fear.

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Fear

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“Do, every day, ALL that can be done that day.”

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Every day

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Abandon everything you have outgrown.

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Abandon

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Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.

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Fixed

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Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

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God knows

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Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.

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Growing

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Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.

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Aim

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

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Direct

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

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Being true

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

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Enough

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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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Essentials

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“... you can advance only by more than filling your present place.”

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Advance

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

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Continually

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No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.

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Community

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Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you…

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Accomplish

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It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your…

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Creative

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Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify…

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Consciously

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A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal…

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Eye

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It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge…

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Boundaries

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You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way…

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Competition

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If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to…

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Decision

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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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Average

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There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the…

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Body

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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which…

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Algebra

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Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do…

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Desire

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You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned…

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Ancestor

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Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be…

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Attraction

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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged…

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Arrangements

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You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and…

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Able

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First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which all things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you…

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All things

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Statement of Being. There is one Mind, and I AM that Mind. That Mind is eternal, and it is Life. I am…

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All things

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The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and…

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Blood

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WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to…

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All time

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Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude.

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Attitude

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I surrender myself to conscious unity with the highest.

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Conscious

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All belief begins in the will to believe.

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Begins

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Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

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Flowing

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It is within the power of every man to become great.

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Every man

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Wallace D. Wattles by topic

Inspirational (74) Love (39) Men (34) Gratitude (32) Money (31) Want (25) Way (24) Rich (23) Life (23) Thinking (21) Mind (20) Psychology (19) Greatness (19) Funny (18) Ifs (17) World (15) Persons (15) Philosophy of Mind (14) Religion (14) Desire (14) Faith (13) What you want (12) May (12) Giving (12) Get rich (12)