Wallace D. Wattles Quotes

Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.

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

I surrender myself to conscious unity with the highest.

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.

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

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

Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.

Do not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you.

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

Begin to do small things in a great way…You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way.

When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.

Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do.

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

There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world.

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.

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

So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.

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.

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

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

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

Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.

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.

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.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.

Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.

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

You can have nothing to fear.

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

The average person’s idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

Because all things are necessary to man’s complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.

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.

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.

Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.

It is within the power of every man to become great

I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest.

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.

Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations; he must forsake every course of action that is not in accord with his highest ideals.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.