Best Quotes from The Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace D.Wattles with Page Numbers

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things.

No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money.

To be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little.

The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praiseworthy.

Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use of things.

Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so.

You can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

There is a Science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic.

Once these laws are learned and obeyed by any man, he will get rich with mathematical certainty.

Getting rich is not a matter of environment, for, if it were, all the people in certain neighborhoods would become wealthy.

Getting rich is the result of doing things in a Certain Way.

Any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

The ability to do things in this certain way is not due solely to the possession of talent.

It is evident that they do not get rich because they possess talents and abilities that other men have not, but because they happen to do things in a Certain Way.

If getting rich is the result of doing things in a Certain Way, and if like causes always produce like effects, then any man or woman who can do things in that way can become rich.

No one is prevented from getting rich by lack of capital.

If you have no capital, you can get capital; if you are in the wrong business, you can get into the right business.

No man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away from him.

There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.

If the workers of America chose to do so, they could... establish great department stores and co-operative industries.

The working class may become the master class whenever they will begin to do things in a Certain Way.

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches.

Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches; the supply will never run short.

The universe is made out of it; but it was not all used in making the universe.

When all the gold and silver has been dug from the earth, more will be produced from the Formless.

It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more.

You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches.

THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.

The stuff from which all things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the form.

We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe.

Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought.

Thought, in thinking substance, produces shapes.

A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

Every thought held in this substance becomes a form.

To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances.

To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance.

When we realize this, we lose all doubt and fear, for we know that we can create what we want to create.

You must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that there is a Deity whose will it is that you should be poor, or whose purposes may be served by keeping you in poverty.

Every living thing must continually seek for the enlargement of its life, because life, in the mere act of living, must increase itself.

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.

It is the desire of God that you should get rich.

The universe desires you to have everything you want to have.

You can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor.

Never look at the visible supply; look always at the limitless riches in Formless Substance.

A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

You cannot give every man more in cash market value than you take from him, but you can give him more in use value than the cash value of the thing you take from him.

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.

You can make your business do for your employees what this book is doing for you.

You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house; and it is just as certain that you can have any other thing or things which you want.

It is your Father's pleasure to give you the kingdom.

The desire you feel for riches is the infinite, seeking to express Himself in you.

Your part is to focalize and express the desire to God.

They hold to so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed to ask for wealth.

It has been unto him according to his faith, and it is so with you and with all of us.

God wants those who can play music to have pianos and every other instrument, and to have the means to cultivate their talents to the fullest extent.

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

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.

The nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.

The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive.

Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought.

There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law, if you are to get the results you seek.

The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it addressed.

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want.

You can never get rich...by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

You must keep your face toward it all the time.

You must know what you want, and want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

The more clear and definite you make your picture...the stronger your desire will be.

Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression.

Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically.

The man who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he owns only in imagination, has real faith.

You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it.

Think and speak of all the things you have asked for in terms of actual present ownership.

You do not try to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself.

The science of getting rich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, in any way whatsoever.

Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you want than you are to get it.

To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.

Do not try to project your will, or your thoughts, or your mind out into space, to 'act' on things or people.

The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will get rich.

Every hour in which your soul is possessed by unbelief sets a current away from you in the whole domain of intelligent Substance.

Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites.

Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an entertainment to make them forget for an hour or two; but inspiration will cause them to rise out of their misery.

Use your will power to keep your mind OFF the subject of poverty, and to keep it fixed with faith and purpose ON the vision of what you want.

Let the dead bury their dead.

Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you.

The world is not going to the devil; it is going to God.

Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it is growing out of.

You should interest yourself in the world's becoming rich.

To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life.

All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul unfoldment comes by way of getting rich.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich.

A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act.

You must not only think, but your personal action must supplement your thought.

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.

Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want.

Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act NOW.

There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

Do not bother as to whether yesterday's work was well done or ill done; do to-day's work well.

Hold the vision of yourself in the right business, with the purpose to get into it, and the faith that you will get into it.

You can so act upon the environment in which you are now, as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment.

A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

You must use your thought as directed in previous chapters, and begin to do what you can do where you are; and you must do ALL that you can do where you are.

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.

The progress of the world is retarded only by those who do not fill the places they are holding.

Every day is either a successful day or a day of failure; and it is the successful days which get you what you want.

If there is something that may be done today, and you do not do it, you have failed in so far as that thing is concerned.

It is really not the number of things you do, but the EFFICIENCY of each separate action that counts.

Every act is, in itself, either a success or a failure.

You will see that it is a self-evident proposition that if you do not do any inefficient acts, and if you do a sufficient number of efficient acts, you will become rich.

Every action is either strong or weak; and when every one is strong, you are acting in the Certain Way which will make you rich.

Do, every day, ALL that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.

"You can get rich in ANY business, for if you have not the right talent for you can develop that talent."

"Desire is a manifestation of power."

"Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do."

"The desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it."

"You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant."

"If you feel that you are not in the right vocation, do not act too hastily in trying to get into another one."

"There is plenty of time. When you are in doubt, wait."

"A day or two spent in contemplating the vision of what you want, and in earnest thanksgiving that you are getting it, will bring your mind into such close relationship with the Supreme that you will make no mistake when you do act."

"The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose."

"Go as fast as you can, but never hurry."

Increase is what all men and all women are seeking; it is the urge of the Formless Intelligence within them, seeking fuller expression.

The desire for increase is inherent in all nature; it is the fundamental impulse of the universe.

Every living thing is under this necessity for continuous advancement; where increase of life ceases, dissolution and death set in at once.

The normal desire for increased wealth is not an evil or a reprehensible thing; it is simply the desire for more abundant life.

In following the Certain Way as described in the foregoing pages, you are getting continuous increase for yourself, and you are giving it to all with whom you deal.

Convey the impression of advancement with everything you do, so that all people shall receive the impression that you are an Advancing Man, and that you advance all who deal with you.

Feel that you are getting rich, and that in so doing you are making others rich, and conferring benefits on all.

Simply feel the faith, and let it work out in every transaction; let every act and tone and look express the quiet assurance that you are getting rich; that you are already rich.

People will go where they are given increase; and the Supreme, which desires increase in all, will move toward you.

What I want for myself, I want for everybody.

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of the fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.

The combined mental and personal action I have described is infallible; it cannot fail.

Every man and woman who follows these instructions steadily, perseveringly, and to the letter, will get rich.

Do not feel that you have no chance to get rich because you are working where there is no visible opportunity for advancement.

The man who is certain to advance is the one who is too big for his place, and who has a clear concept of what he wants to be.

There is a Power which never fails to present opportunity to the Advancing Man who is moving in obedience to law.

When you enter upon the creative plane of thought you will rise above all these things and become a citizen of another kingdom.

No possible combination of circumstances can defeat a man or woman who is proceeding to get rich along strictly scientific lines.

Always speak in terms of advancement; to do otherwise is to deny your faith, and to deny your faith is to lose it.

The same source of Ability which enabled the untaught Lincoln to do the greatest work in government ever accomplished by a single man is open to you.