Quotes from Wallace D. Wattles

Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.

The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

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

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.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.

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.

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ..... this vital energy is the only power by which the body may be healed, repaired, renewed or maintained

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

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.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

It is within the power of every man to become great.

The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

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.

Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.

To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

Doing what you want to do is life.