Wallace D. Wattles – a Man Who CHOSE to be Rich

Wallace D. Wattles (1860 – 1911) wrote several powerful, life-changing books over 100 years ago, but very little is known about his life. For most of his life he lived in poverty although many times he attempted – with many failures along the way – to create an abundant life for his family. He was dismissed from the Methodist church because of his “heresy”, according to his daughter Florence.

In latter years of his life his unremitting study, writing and research finally paid off and he made lots of money and enjoyed pretty good health. 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)

The thoughts and words from his best known book  – “The Science of Getting Rich” -  inspired Rhonda Brynes to create the successful The Secret DVD. Other Wallace D. Wattles well known books and articles that he wrote include “The Science of Being Well”, “The Science of Being Great,”  “How to Get What you Want,” “Health Through New Thought and Fasting,”  “Making of the Man Who Can,” and “Hellfire Harrison” – a novel and “The Science of Abundant Life.”

 

Let Wallace D. Wattles Inspire You to Change Your Life

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. The following quote illustrates 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.”

 

13 Powerful Quotes from Wallace D. Wattles’ Writings

“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 person whom you affect will have more than he has now.”

“Talented people get rich, and blockheads get rich; intellectually brilliant people get rich, and very stupid people get rich; physically strong people get rich, and weak and sickly people get rich.

“By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it.”

“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.”

“No one is kept poor because other people have monopolized the wealth and have put a fence around it.”

“You must know what you want and be specific and definite . You can never get rich or start the creative power into action by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Think of the riches the world is growing into instead of the poverty it is growing out of, and bear in mind that the only way you can assist the world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creative method, not the competitive one.”

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

“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.”

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