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.”

“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.”

“Our difficulties are largely due to confused ideas and ignorance of our true interests. The great task is to discover the laws of nature to which we are to adjust ourselves. Clear thinking and moral insight are, therefore, of incalculable value.

All processes, even those of thought, rest on solid foundations. The keener the sensibilities, the more acute the judgment, the more delicate the taste, the more refined the moral feelings, the more subtle the intelligence, the loftier the aspiration – the purer and more intense are the gratifications which existence yields.

Hence it is that the study of the best that has been thought in the world gives supreme pleasure. The powers, uses and possibilities of the mind under the new interpretations are incomparably more wonderful that the most extravagant accomplishment, or even dreams of material progress.

Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

This is the power which is being used by those who do not believe in the virtue of poverty, or the beauty of self-denial. They perceive that this is the talk of weaklings.

The ability to receive and manifest this power depends upon the ability to recognize the Infinite Energy ever dwelling in man, constantly creating and recreating his body and mind, and ready at any moment to manifest through him in any needful manner.

In exact proportion to the recognition of this truth will be the manifestation in the outer life of the individual.”

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

“Premature wealth or position cannot be retained because it has not been earned; we get only what we give, and those who try to get without giving always find that the law of compensation is relentlessly bringing about an exact equilibrium.”

“Substitute thoughts of courage, power, self-reliance and confidence, for those of fear, lack and limitation.”

“That a man can change himself, improve himself, re-create himself, control his environment, and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action.”

“That much gathers more is true on every plane of existence and that loss leads to greater loss is equally true.”

“The attitude of mind necessarily depends upon what we think. Therefore, the secret of all power, all achievement and all possession depends upon our method of thinking.”

“The last centuries saw the most magnificent material progress in history, and the present century is set to produce the greatest progress in mental and spiritual power.”

“The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success.

There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.”