Wallace D. Wattles
American author of New Thought books, 1860-1911
12 quotes.
Quotes by Wallace D. Wattles
- A man may have a large brain and a good mind, strong faculties, and brilliant talents, and yet he is not a great man unless he uses all these in a great way.
- Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression.
- Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear.
- Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it.
- No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned or lowly their station, the upward way is open for you.
- The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
- The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
- To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.
- You can advance only by being larger than your present place; and no man is larger than his present place who leaves undone any of the work pertaining to that place.
- You can make yourself what you desire to be; you can do what you wish to do; you can have what you want.
- You cannot act where you are not; you cannot act where you have been, and you cannot act where you are going to be; you can act only where you are.
- You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.