Quotes from Wallace D. Wattles

There is no reason for worry about financial affairs. Every person who wills to do so may rise above his want, have all he needs, and become rich.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

What I want for myself, I want for everybody.

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.

The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when it is time to do these things; in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love men and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth. But

Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way.

Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.

Knowledge of truth is not often reached by the processes of reason. It was due to a spiritual insight.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Whatever

an ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.

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.

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.

Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.

It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.

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

The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.

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.