Wallace D. Wattles Quotes - Page 8

Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.

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.

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

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

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

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

Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.

It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.

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.

There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law if you are to get the results you seek.

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

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.

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.

Do not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you.

You can have nothing to fear.

Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude.

Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world

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.