Quotes from Wallace D. Wattles

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.

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 praise worthy.

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

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.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.

The purpose of nature is the advancement and development of life.

Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

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.

Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.

I will trust and not be afraid.

All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

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.

Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.

There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich.

In order to get what you want, you must act.

You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.