Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

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• Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.
• 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…
• 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…
• A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.
• Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
• Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.
• 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…
• Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.
• 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…
• Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.
• The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically…

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