Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Wisdom, Greatness, Great
Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Power, Best, Wisdom, Great
Success action is cumulative in its results.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Success & Failure, Success
Faith—not a faith in one’s self or in one’s own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Faith, Victory, Give, Power, Great, Greatness
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Best, Doing, Great
You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Soul, Learn, Great
Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Think, Great, Growth, Thinking, Win
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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Fear, Truth, God, Worry, Anxiety, Thoughts, Great
In order to get rich you do not need a “sweet hour of prayer”; you need to “pray without ceasing”. And by prayer I mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause its creation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so.
—Wallace Wattles
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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Persona, Great, God
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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Live, Act, Ideals, God, Life, Ideal, Great, Action
Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Ideal, Great
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Service, Vision, Love
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Life, Live, Act, Poverty, Success, Rich
The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Try, Little Things, Great, Give, Power
Begin to do small things in a great way…You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Power, Act, Soul
You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Mistake, Success, Great, Virtue
Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Mind, People, Great, Dream
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Doing, Great, Yin, Try, Pride
If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Effort, Talent, Great
If a doubt comes, cast it aside as a sin.
—Wallace Wattles
The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
—Wallace Wattles
The average person’s idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great
You can have nothing to fear.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Fear, Great
No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great
I will trust and not be afraid.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Trust
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.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Thinking, Think, Great
You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: War, Great, God
It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Great, Happiness
You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.
—Wallace Wattles
Topics: Learn, Great, Work
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