Top 200 Wallace D. Wattles Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “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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53. “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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54. “Read only the most optimistic comments on the world’s news; those in harmony with your picture.”

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55. “The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.”

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56. “Success action is cumulative in its results.”

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57. “You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.”

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

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59. “I surrender myself to conscious unity with the highest.”

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60. “Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.”

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61. “Abandon everything you have outgrown.”

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62. “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.”

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63. “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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64. “Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.”

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65. “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.”

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66. “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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67. “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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68. “Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.”

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69. “A thought is a substace, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.”

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

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71. “The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.”

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72. “I will trust and not be afraid.”

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73. “The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.”

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74. “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.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

75. “Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.”

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76. “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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77. “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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78. “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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79. “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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80. “There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world.”

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

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82. “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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83. “You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all.”

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84. “Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.”

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85. “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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86. “You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.”

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87. “Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.”

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88. “There is no lack of opportunity.”

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89. “Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.”

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90. “Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.”

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91. “Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.”

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92. “You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.”

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93. “A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.”

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94. “You have that within you which is ever impelling you toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of Power; you must obey it without question.”

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95. “Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.”

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96. “Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.”

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97. “When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.”

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98. “You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul.”

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99. “Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.”

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100. “You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power.”

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