222 Quotes by Wallace D. Wattles

Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to do people who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor people who purpose with faith to get rich.

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of the soul, but not if you desire them for the lusts of the flesh. Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.

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

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.

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.

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power.