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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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

There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Act, Change, Great, Life

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

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

When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Faith, Act, Great, Consequences, Perfect, Good

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: Life, Ideal, Great, God, Live, Act, Ideals, Action

The average person’s idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Genius, Win

I will trust and not be afraid.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Trust, Great

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Mistake, Success, Great, Virtue

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Perfect, Great, Mistake, Soul, Faith, Doubt, Trust, Think

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

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: Worry, Truth, Thoughts, God, Great, Anxiety, Fear

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Teach

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

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 Wattles
Topics: Think, Great, Future, Act

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: Wise, Great, Good

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: Great, Work, Learn

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Good, Perfect, Evil, People

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: Great, Doing, Best

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 Wattles
Topics: Rich, Act, Learn

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Secret, Exercise, Control, Great

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

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

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Act, Great, Genius, Power, Deeds, God, Soul

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: God, War, Great, Power

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

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

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