Wallace D. Wattles

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If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.
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Collection: Decision
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The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.
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Collection: Giving
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Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can , but never hurry.
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Collection: Worry
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Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
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Collection: Gratitude
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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.
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Collection: Thinking
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The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
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Collection: Crazy
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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.
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Collection: Destiny
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First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which all things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you everything you desire. And third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and profound gratitude.
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Collection: Gratitude
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Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them.
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Collection: Positive Thinking
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You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.
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Collection: Inspirational
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Begin to do small things in a great way...You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act.
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Collection: Soul
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By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it
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Collection: Want
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The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be, and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.
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Collection: Mind
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Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.
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Collection: Waiting
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It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
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Collection: Destiny
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You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
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Collection: Ideas
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Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
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Collection: Greatness
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You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.
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Collection: Competition
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The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
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Collection: Grateful
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You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.
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Collection: Dream
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The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.
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Collection: Gratitude
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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.
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Collection: Spiritual
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Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.
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Collection: Increase
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It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.
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Collection: Gratitude
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THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.
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Collection: Substance
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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.
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Collection: Effort
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You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.
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Collection: Law
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Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.
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Collection: Believe
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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.
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Collection: Inspirational
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Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.
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Collection: Men
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The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
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Collection: Men
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Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.
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Collection: Wish
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There is no lack of opportunity.
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Collection: Opportunity
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No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.
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Collection: Thinking
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Every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow-and inspires them to do so.
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Collection: Inspire
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The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich; while those who do not do things in this Certain Way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.
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Collection: Purpose
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Do not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you.
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Collection: Advice
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It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.
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Collection: Men
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Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.
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Collection: Gratitude
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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.
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Collection: Real
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The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.
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Collection: Gratitude
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The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.
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Collection: Gratitude
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Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.
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Collection: Evil
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The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.
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Collection: Grateful
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Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.
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Collection: Greatness
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The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.
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Collection: Faith
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The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude
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Collection: Gratitude
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You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.
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Collection: Powerful
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Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.
- Wallace D. Wattles
Collection: Greatness