Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
Interpretation
Gratitude is essential for a fulfilling life, and its absence can lead to a sense of poverty despite other successes.
Wallace D. Wattles suggests that gratitude is a vital component of a well-ordered life. Even if individuals appear successful in various aspects, the absence of gratitude can lead to feelings of deprivation and dissatisfaction. True wealth encompasses appreciation and recognition of what one has, and neglecting gratitude can hinder true prosperity and fulfillment.
In practice
In a speech about personal development, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of gratitude.
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.
You want to get rich 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 others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.
Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do. You should not have any remains after you do something. But this does not mean to forget all about it.
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
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