Wallace D Wattles Quotes For All Areas of Life
"If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave."
This hard-hitting example of Wallace D Wattles quotes makes you think doesn't it?
Wattles spent many years of his life studying and thinking about the most important issues which rule our lives. His keen mind and insightful words are the hallmark of any quote by Wallace D Wattles.
Wallace D Wattles 1860 - 1911
Interestingly enough, though Wallace D Wattles wrote several powerful, life-changing books over 100 years ago, very little is known about his life. For most of his life he lived in poverty and tried many schemes to create for his family an abundant life, with many a failure. He was dismissed from the Methodist church because of his "heresy", according to his daughter Florence.
In his latter years his unremitting study, writing and research paid off and he finally made lots of money and enjoyed good health, except for his extreme frailty. He became a living example of the concepts he was writing and lecturing about. "He formed his mental picture. He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an advancing man, and he began to work toward the realization of this vision . . . . . He lived every page of "The Science of Being Great" (Florence Wattles)
From his best known book "The Science of Getting Rich"
Wallace Wattles' profound thoughts and words inspired Rhonda Brynes to
create the phenomenally successful Movie The Secret.
Other Wallace D Wattles quotes come from some of his other books and articles, which include "The Science of Being Great", The Science of Being Well", "How to Get What you Want", "Health Through New Thought and Fasting", "Making of the Man Who Can", "Hellfire Harrison" - a novel and "The Science of Abundant Life".
Let Wallace D Wattles quotes broaden your mind
- You can find a quote by Wallace D Wattles on all areas of human endeavour
- A consistent theme with Wattles is his insistence on using our brains and our own thoughts to bring about changes on our lives
- In many ways his ideas were revolutionary for his times; at the same time you can find similar sentiments in The Bible, The Koran, in the teachings of Buddha - "Everything works under the same laws, yesterday, today and forever."
- Wattles is adamant that we create our own lives, and that does not happen if we sit on our backsides waiting for the golden fruit to fall in our laps
This favourite quote by Wallace D Wattles exemplifies the basis of all his thought:
"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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Your Top Ten Wallace D Wattles Quotes:
"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" - Wallace D Wattles
"By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it" - Wallace D Wattles
"You can begin to be great to-day in your own home, in your store or office, on the street, everywhere; you can begin to make yourself known as great; and you can do this by doing everything you do in a great way" - Wallace D Wattles
"There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ..... this vital energy is the only power by which the body may be healed, repaired, renewed or maintained" - Wallace D Wattles
"Many people who order their lives rightly, in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude" - Wallace D Wattles
"The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come." - Wallace D Wattles
"There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world" - Wallace D Wattles
"The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining" - Wallace D Wattles
Also see: Life Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes
"Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction" - Wallace D Wattles
"The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith." - Wallace D Wattles