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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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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, Consequences, Good, Great, Act, Perfect

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

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, Good, Great

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

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, Past, 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: Spiritual, Power, Spirit, 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, Soul, Act, Power

The only service that you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give to the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: God, Yin, Service, Live, Possibilities, Try, Give, Vice

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

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

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: Future, Think, Act, Great

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: Learn, Act, Rich

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

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

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, Great, Change, Life

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

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: Fear, Trust, Great, People

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Try, Yin, Doing, Pride, Great

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

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

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

Do not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Attention, Great, Vice

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

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

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

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

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

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