Top 200 Wallace D. Wattles Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.”

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

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103. “Do not wait for a change of environment before you act. Cause a change of environment through action. You can act upon your present environment so as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment.”

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104. “The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.”

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105. “You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.”

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106. “Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.”

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

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108. “Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.”

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109. “It is within the power of every man to become great.”

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110. “Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.”

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111. “It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.”

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112. “No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise...”

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113. “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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114. “It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.”

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115. “Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way.”

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116. “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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117. “Faith When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.”

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118. “If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting rich yourself.”

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119. “No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.”

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120. “What I want for myself, I want for everybody.”

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121. “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.”

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

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123. “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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124. “Learn to pay attention to your body with the relaxed attitude of gratitude, trust, curiosity and unconditional love rather than being pushed around by habit, fear, anxiety, social customs, other people’s schedules and other people’s ideas about what is good for you.”

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125. “In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.”

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126. “You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.”

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127. “The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith.”

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128. “God stands ready to give you wealth, mental and spiritual power, and perfect health.”

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129. “You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear.”

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130. “Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform. There.”

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

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132. “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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133. “There is a law of gratitude, and if you are to get the results you seek, it is absolutely necessary that you should observe this law.”

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134. “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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135. “The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you.”

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136. “You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.”

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137. “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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138. “You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.”

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139. “Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do.”

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140. “To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.”

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141. “But do not be servile; never be a flunkey; and above all things avoid the intellectual prostitution which is the vice of our times in many trades and most professions. I mean by this the being a mere hired apologist for and defender of immorality, graft, dishonesty, or vice in any form. The intellectual prostitute may rise in the service, but he is a lost soul.”

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142. “To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.”

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143. “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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144. “Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.”

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145. “There is never any hurry on the creative plane; and there is no lack of opportunity.”

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

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147. “Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.”

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148. “The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.”

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149. “Man’s right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment or, in other words, his right to be rich.”

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

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