Wallace Wattles - The Science of Getting Rich (1910)

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

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Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.

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Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.

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Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.

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There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.

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The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.

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Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.

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

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To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power becomes a mastermind. That person can conquer fate and can have what he or she wants.

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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.

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Every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow-and inspires them to do so.

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You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.

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It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

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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.

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To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

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The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

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

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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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