Wallace Wattles Quotes

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"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.

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There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world

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Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

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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.

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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.

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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 govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

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You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power

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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.

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

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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.

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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 fast as you can receive and use them.

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

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

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

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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 that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.

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

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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 can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.

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

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Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.

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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 power to do it is strong.

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

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The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

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

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

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Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

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By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.

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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 eye or not.

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The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

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