Wallace D. Wattles Quotes - Page 6

There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence 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 toward you.

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.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.

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.

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

Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.

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

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

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

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.

You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all.

Our gratitude liberates an energy within us that immediately expands into the formless substance, where it is instantly returned to us in kind.

Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it. Desire is a manifestation of power.

You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned or lowly their station, the upward way is open for you. There is no such thing as inheriting a fixed mental position; no matter how small the mental capital we receive from our parents, it may be increased; no man is incapable of growth.

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

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.

There is no possibility in any man that is not in every man

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

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

...you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.

You cannot give everyone more in cash market value than you take from him, but you can give him more in use value than the cash value of the thing you take from him.

Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.

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.