Quotes from Wallace D. Wattles

You do not have to compel God to give you good things, any more than you have to use your will power to make the sun rise.

the exercise of gratitude is always a sheet anchor which will prevent you from being swept away.

real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul.

Recue na contemplação de sua visão e aumente sua fé e propósito; e por todos os meios, em tempos de dúvida e indecisão, cultive a gratidão.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

The purpose of life for us is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.

And further, the ability to do things in this certain way is not due solely to the possession of talent, for many people who have great talent remain poor, while other who have very little talent get rich.

The proper use of the mind of man will build a brain capable of doing what the mind wants to do. The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the form of these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to the Formless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you

Do not sit down and try to ATTRACT the thing you want to you; but begin to move toward the thing you want, and you will find it coming to meet you. Action and reaction are equal; and the person who steadily and purposefully moves forward with one thing in view becomes a center toward which the thing he seeks is drawn with irresistible power;

Hay tres motivos por los cuales vivimos: vivimos para el cuerpo, vivimos para la mente, y vivimos para el alma. 

If the masses begin to move forward as suggested in this book, neither governments nor industrial systems can check them; all systems must be modified to accommodate the forward movement.

If the people have the Advancing Mind, have the Faith that they can become rich, and move forward with the fixed purpose to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.

When all the gold and silver has been dug from the earth, if man is still in such a stage of social development that he needs gold and silver, more will produced from the Formless. The Formless Stuff responds to the needs of man; it will not let him be without any good thing.

Man is a thinking substance, a portion of the Cosmic Substance; but man is limited, while God has no limits. We are immersed in mind and that mind contains all knowledge and all truth. It is seeking to give us this knowledge, for God delights to give good gifts to his children.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praiseworthy.

Consider government and industry as being perfect now and advancing rapidly toward being complete; then you will understand that there is nothing to fear, no cause for anxiety, nothing to worry about. Never complain of any of these things.

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches; it is a fact which I shall demonstrate a little farther on that even the resources of the Formless Supply are at the command of the man or woman will act and think in a Certain Way.

all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate

Any man who develops the power to perceive truth, and who can show that he always knows the right thing to do and that he can be trusted to do the right thing, will be honored and advanced.

Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a certain time, and not get it at that time; and this will appear to you like failure.

Spend most of your leisure time in contemplating your vision

Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole.

Jesus, The Man and His Work Published from a Lecture by Wallace D. Wattles Cincinnati, Ohio (November 11, 1905)