Wallace D. Wattles Quotes - Page 5

All belief begins in the will to believe.

There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.

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.

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.

To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances.

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

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.

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.

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.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

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.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

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

I will trust and not be afraid.

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.

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

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

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.

Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.

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.

The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude

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.

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

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.