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Inspirational Quotes by Wallace Wattles (American New Thought Author)

Inspirational Quotations by Wallace Wattles (American New Thought Author)

Wallace Delois Wattles (1860–1911) was an American New Thought writer. His works remain in print in the New Thought and self-help movements.

Details of Wattles’s life are vague and ambiguous. Born in Illinois, he received little formal education and worked as a farm laborer.

Wattles wrote two volumes on Christian Socialism—Jesus: The Man and His Work (1902) and A New Christ (1903.) He later joined the New Thought movement and wrote his popular “The Science of” trilogy, consisting of The Science of Getting Rich (1910; also Financial Success Through Creative Thought, 1915,) The Science of Being Great (1910,) and The Science of Being Well (1910.)

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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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Doing, Best, Great

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Anxiety, Great, Thoughts, Truth, Fear, God, Worry

Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations; he must forsake every course of action that is not in accord with his highest ideals.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Ideal, Live, Great, Life, Action, God, Act, Ideals

You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apart to tell Him what you want, and then forgetting Him the rest of the week.
—Wallace Wattles

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Ideal, Perfection, Great, Perfect

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Think, Questions

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Wise, Good

Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: God, Persona, Great

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Love, Service, Vision

Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Try

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Work, Learn, Great

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Greatness, Nature

The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
—Wallace Wattles

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Genius

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Greatness, Wisdom, Great

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, God, Past

Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Good, War, Envy, Persona, Mind

By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: God, Act, Great

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: People, Best, Great

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Habit, Think, Better, Decide, Destiny, Great, Power

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Labor, Thinking, People, Think

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great

Without faith it is impossible to please God, and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Character, Faith, Act, God, Great

You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: God, War, Great

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 Wattles
Topics: Spirit, Great, Power, Spiritual

If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Talent, Great, Effort

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Action

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Thinking, Think, Great

The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere. 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 Wattles
Topics: Act, Life, Think, Growth, Character, Spirit, Power, Purpose, Great, Possibilities

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 Wattles
Topics: Great, War, God, Power

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Wise, Kind, Great

It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Happiness, Great

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Balance, Mind, Great, Power

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Mind, God, Wisdom

If a doubt comes, cast it aside as a sin.
—Wallace Wattles

Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Ideal, Great

Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Thinking, Growth, Great, Think, Win

You can have nothing to fear.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Fear

Faith—not a faith in one’s self or in one’s own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Victory, Faith, Power, Give, Greatness, Great

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