Charles F. Haanel quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“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 can be whatever I will to be.”

“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.”

“Our future is entirely within our own control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.”

“The student who learns that power comes from within, that he is weak only because he has depended on help from outside, and who unhesitatingly throws himself on his own thought, instantly rights himself, stands erect, assumes a dominant attitude, and works miracles.”

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

“We make money by making friends, and we enlarge our circle of friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of service to them. The first law of success then is service, and this in turn is built on integrity and justice.”

“What comes to us in the world without is what we already possess in the world within.”

“Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives.”

“Why is intuition superior to reason?
Because it does not depend upon experience or memory and frequently brings about the solution to our problems by methods concerning which we are in entire ignorance.”

“You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought.”