Charles F. Haanel Quotes

“I don't care what city you live in, you have enough capacity in your body and potential energy to light the entire city for about a week.”

“Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.”

“The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form.”

“There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.”

“To acquire love... fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.”

“When you are at one with the world, you often find that the thing you seek is seeking you.”

“The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.”

“You can think the thoughts of every sage, every artist, every financier, every captain of industry who ever existed, for thoughts never die.”

“The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view.

In order to do this, it is necessary to center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.”

“All growth is from within. This is evident in all nature. Every plant, every animal, every human is a living testimony to this great law, and the error of the ages is in looking for strength or power from without.”

“All possession is based on consciousness. All gain is the result of an accumulative consciousness. All loss is the result of a scattering consciousness.”

“Amid all the mysteries by which we are surrounded, nothing is more certain than that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.”

“By keeping the thought in mind, it will gradually take tangible form. A definite purpose sets causes in motion which go out in the invisible world and find the material necessary to serve your purpose.”

“Conscious mind is reasoning will. Subconscious mind is instinctive desire, the result of past reasoning will.”

“Eliminate any possible tendency to complain of conditions as they have been or as they are, because it rests with you to change them and make them what you would like them to be.”

“Emerson loved the good and his life was a symphony of peace and harmony, Carlyle hated the bad, and his life was a record of perpetual discord and inharmony.”

“Every thing and institution we see around us, created by human agency, had first to exist as a thought in some human mind. Thought therefore is constructive.

Human thought is the spiritual power of the cosmos operating through its creature man.”

“Every thought is a cause and every condition an effect. For this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions.”

“Harmony in the world within means the ability to control our thoughts, and to determine for ourselves how any experience is to affect us.”

“I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.”

“I can be whatever I will to be.”

“If you require love, try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the only way you can give it is to fill yourself up with it, until you become a magnet.”

“Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.”

“Intuition often comes with a suddenness that is startling; it reveals the truth for which we are searching, so directly that it seems to come from a higher power.”

“It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.”

“Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind, out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view.”

“Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences in life are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude.”

“Most men try to change effects by working with effects. They fail to see that this is simply changing one form of distress for another.

To remove discord, we must remove the cause, and this cause can be found only in the world within.”

“Nature compels us all to move through life. We could not remain stationary however much we wished. Every right-thinking person wants not merely to move through life like a sound-producing, perambulating plant, but to develop – to improve – and to continue the development mentally to the close of physical life.

This development can occur only through the improvement of the quality of individual thought and the ideals, actions and conditions that arise as a consequence. Hence a study of the creative processes of thought and how to apply them is of supreme importance to each one of us.

This knowledge is the means whereby the volition of human life on earth may be hastened and uplifted in the process. Humanity ardently seeks “The Truth” and explores every avenue to it.”

“Not what you think once in a while when you are in church, or have just read a good book, but your predominant mental attitude is what counts.”