To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich. Wallace D. Wattles More Quotes by Wallace D. Wattles More Quotes From Wallace D. Wattles You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. Wallace D. Wattles creative action desire Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it. Wallace D. Wattles inspirational people thinking No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all. Wallace D. Wattles riches poverty enough In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. 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 your gratitude. Wallace D. Wattles gratitude thankful appreciation Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity. Wallace D. Wattles waiting want opportunity 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 D. Wattles eye real thinking That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression. Wallace D. Wattles money expression want Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be. Wallace D. Wattles waiting want opportunity You cannot give everyone 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. Wallace D. Wattles cash use giving You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete. Wallace D. Wattles men-and-women perfect men Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration. Wallace D. Wattles wealth evil desire Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be. Wallace D. Wattles greatness want people Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do. Wallace D. Wattles pieces purpose successful 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 D. Wattles prayer faith talking To think what you want to think is to think truth, regardless of appearances. Wallace D. Wattles philosophical want thinking THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance. Wallace D. Wattles riches tangible substance By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship. Wallace D. Wattles pure ideas There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you. Wallace D. Wattles gratitude grateful law Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you. Wallace D. Wattles manifest causes desire You can have nothing to fear. Wallace D. Wattles fear