Charles F. Haanel Quotes & Sayings

The power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it. — Charles F. Haanel

Feeling emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form. — Charles F. Haanel

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. — Charles F. Haanel

To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power. — Charles F. Haanel

Then comes the process of visualization. You must see the picture more and more complete, see the detail, and, as the details begin to unfold the ways and means for bringing it into manifestation will develop. One thing will lead to another. Thought will lead to action, action will develop methods, methods will develop friends, and friends will bring about circumstances, and, finally, the third step, or Materialization, will have been accomplished. — Charles F. Haanel

When you are at one with the world, you often find that the thing you seek is seeking you. — Charles F. Haanel

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries
is the power of thought. — Charles F. Haanel

It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you. — Charles F. Haanel

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. — Charles F. Haanel

Realize that the Silence offers an ever available and almost unlimited opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth. Try to comprehend that Omnipotence itself is absolute silence; all else is change, activity, limitation. Silent thought concentration is therefore the true method of reaching, awakening and then expressing the wonderful potential power of the world within. — Charles F. Haanel

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose. — Charles F. Haanel

To improve our conditions we must first improve ourselves. — Charles F. Haanel

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love. — Charles F. Haanel

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. — Charles F. Haanel

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. — Charles F. Haanel

There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty. — Charles F. Haanel

We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think. — Charles F. Haanel

The real secret of power is consciousness of power. — Charles F. Haanel

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. — Charles F. Haanel

You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way. — Charles F. Haanel

The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence. — Charles F. Haanel

The world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears without is what has been found within. In the world within may be found infinite wisdom, infinite power and infinite supply of all that is necessary, waiting for unfoldment, development and expression. If we recognize these potentialities in the world within they will take form in the world without. — Charles F. Haanel

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. — Charles F. Haanel

The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly
bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life,
corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant mental attitude. Not what you think about once in a while
when you are in church, or have just read a good book,
BUT your predominant mental attitude is what counts. — Charles F. Haanel

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. — Charles F. Haanel

You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do. — Charles F. Haanel

Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate
new worlds of thought and experience. — Charles F. Haanel

Growth follows knowledge;
action follows inspiration;
opportunity follows perception;
always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite
and illimitable possibilities of achievement. — Charles F. Haanel

Thought is energy.
Active thought is active energy;
concentrated thought is a concentrated energy.
Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power. — Charles F. Haanel

A knowledge of our ability to consciously radiate health, strength, and harmony will bring us into a realization that there is nothing to fear because we are in touch with Infinite Strength. This knowledge can be gained only by making a practical application of this information. We learn by doing-through practice the athlete becomes powerful. — Charles F. Haanel

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours. — Charles F. Haanel

The Universal mind is not only intelligence, but it is substance, and this substance is the attractive force which brings electrons together by the law of attraction so they form atoms; the atoms in turn are brought together by the same law and form molecules; molecules take objective forms and so we find that the law is the creative force behind every manifestation, not only of atoms, but of worlds, of the universe, of everything of which the imagination can form any conception. — Charles F. Haanel

The law of attraction or the law of love ... they are one and the same. — Charles F. Haanel

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. — Charles F. Haanel

Our future is entirely within our own control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power. — Charles F. Haanel

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction. — Charles F. Haanel

Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether. — Charles F. Haanel