Wallace Wattles - The Science of Being Great

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You are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.

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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 things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

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This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.

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I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.

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Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.

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You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

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The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does.

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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.

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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 yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

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Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

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Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

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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.

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There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

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

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

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Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

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