Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes 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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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: God, Great, Past

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, Spiritual, Power

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

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: People, Great, Good, Evil, Perfect

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.
Wallace Wattles
Topics: Trust, Great, People, Fear

Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.
Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Perfect

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.
Wallace Wattles
Topics: Growth, Great

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.
Wallace Wattles
Topics: Teach, Great

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: Think, Great, Thinking

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

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: Best, People, Great

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: Best, Great, Doing

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

Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.
Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Attitude

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

Success action is cumulative in its results.
Wallace Wattles
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

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

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

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

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.
Wallace Wattles
Topics: Truth, Perfect, Fear, Great, Faith, Perception

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

Begin to do small things in a great way…You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act.
Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Act, Soul, Power

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, Good, Consequences, Great, Perfect, Act

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

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: Soul, Genius, Power, Deeds, Great, Act, God

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, Better, Decide, Great, Power, Think, Destiny

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: Act, Rich, Learn

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: Soul, Trust, Faith, Great, Mistake, Perfect, Think, Doubt

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

Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.
Wallace Wattles
Topics: God, Great

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