Charles F. Haanel quotes

Charles F. Haanel was a renowned author, philosopher, and entrepreneur known for his groundbreaking work in the field of personal development and success principles. His most famous work, "The Master Key System," has been a source of inspiration for countless individuals seeking to unlock their full potential. Haanel's teachings emphasize the power of the mind and the importance of self-belief in achieving one's goals. His work continues to influence generations of success-seekers worldwide. Learn more about Charles F. Haanel and his transformational teachings to unlock your own personal success journey.

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.

- 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

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

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.

- Charles F. Haanel

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.

- Charles F. Haanel

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

- Charles F. Haanel

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.

- Charles F. Haanel

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

- 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

I can be whatever I will to be.

- Charles F. Haanel

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

- Charles F. Haanel

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

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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.

- Charles F. Haanel

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.

- 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

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.

- Charles F. Haanel

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

- Charles F. Haanel

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.

- Charles F. Haanel

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.

- Charles F. Haanel

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

- 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 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.

- Charles F. Haanel

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

- Charles F. Haanel

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

- Charles F. Haanel