WALLACE D. WATTLES

• Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.
• And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in Formless Substa...

1. To set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself.
2. It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women, in order to get them to do what you wish done.
3. You have no right to use your will power upon anot...

FAITH is born of gratitude.

• The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
• The reaction of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith

You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when it is time to do these things; in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love men and do kin...

1. 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.
2. A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by im...

• The universe desires you to have everything you want to have.
• Nature is friendly to your plans.
• Everything is naturally for you.
• Make up your mind that this is true.

• You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is not necessary to tell God about it every day.
• Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life, and to get these desire arranged into a coherent whole; and then to impress thi...

1. The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.
2. We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.
3. The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to beco...

You can make the most of yourself only by getting rich; so it is right and praiseworthy that you should give your first and best thought to the work of acquiring wealth.

Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind. What he wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help ot...

1. You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apart to tell Him what you want, and then forgetting Him during the rest of the week.
2. You cannot impress Him by having special hours to go into your closet and pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind ...

1. The whole matter turns on receiving, once you have clearly formed your vision.
2. When you have formed it, it is well to make an oral statement, addressing the Supreme in reverent prayer; and from that moment you must, in mind, receive what you ask for.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.

The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in one word, GRATITUDE.

1. First, you believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which all things proceed;
2. Second, you believe that this Substance gives you everything you desire; a...

• It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously.
• And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in yo...

• Mind, however, that you do not do this as a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the FAITH that the imaginary is being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it.
• Remember that it is faith and purpose in the use...

1. Man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the

You must want real life, not mere pleasure of sensual gratification.

Life is the performance of function; and the individual really lives only when he performs every function - physical, mental, and spiritual, of which he is capable, w...

1. No one lives completely who denies the impulses of the body a normal and healthful expression.
2. The man who lives for the pleasures of the intellect alone will only have a partial life, and he will never be satisfied with his lot.
3. The joys of the soul are

1. You must get rid of the thought of competition.
2. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.
3. You do not have to take anything away from any one.
4. You do not have to drive sharp bargains. You do not have to cheat, or to take advantage.
5. You do n...

1. The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility to come into action.
2. It is power seeking to manifest which causes desire.
3. That which makes you want more money...

• Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor. And you cannot hold the mental image which is to make you rich if you fill your mind with pictures of poverty.
• What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of poverty into your mind, but getting pictur...

Never get afraid that you will lose what you want because some other person “beats you to it”.

That cannot possibly happen; you are not seeking any thing that is possessed by anybody else; you are causing what you want to be created from Formless Substance, and the supply is wit...

1. You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
2. The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details