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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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Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Greatness, Great, Thinking, Thoughts, Think

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Think

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Perception, Act, Truth, Faith

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

In order to get rich you do not need a “sweet hour of prayer”; you need to “pray without ceasing”. And by prayer I mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause its creation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so.
—Wallace Wattles

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

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

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Perfect

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

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

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: Good, War, Envy, Persona, Great, Mind

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: Learn, Great, Work

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: Act, Great, Soul, Power

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

You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Soul, Great, Rich, Greed, Desire, Power

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: Evil, Perfect, Great, Good, People

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Power, Great, War

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

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Rich, Success, Poverty, Act, Live, Life

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

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: Faith, Greatness, Victory, Power, Great, Give

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

I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Soul

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

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

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

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

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, Life, Great

Because all things are necessary to man’s complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: God, Work, Life, Great

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

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Dream, People, Mind, Great

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.
—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: Great, Balance, Power, Mind

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: Faith, Act, Great, Character, God

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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Power, Great, Little Things, Try, Give

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

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: Great, Persona, God

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: Growth, Think, Character, Possibilities, Life, Power, Spirit, Great, Purpose, Act

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

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Wisdom, Great, Best, Power

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