Top 200 Wallace D. Wattles Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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2. “The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

3. “It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

4. “The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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5. “Leave every person you come into contact with the impression of increase.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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6. “The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

7. “THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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8. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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9. “By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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10. “Getting rich isn’t about doing certain things. It’s about doing things in the certain way!”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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11. “All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

12. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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13. “The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

14. “There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

15. “If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

16. “You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

17. “The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

18. “Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

19. “If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

20. “The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

21. “All belief begins in the will to believe.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

22. “A person’s way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

23. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

24. “Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

25. “Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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26. “Success in life is becoming what you want to be.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

27. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

28. “The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

29. “First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which all things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you everything you desire. And third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and profound gratitude.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

30. “It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

31. “That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

32. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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

— Wallace D. Wattles

34. “The purpose of nature is the advancement and development of life.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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

— Wallace D. Wattles

36. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

37. “Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

38. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

39. “The only service that you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give to the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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

— Wallace D. Wattles

41. “When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

42. “The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

43. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

44. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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

— Wallace D. Wattles

46. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

47. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

48. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

49. “The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

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

— Wallace D. Wattles