Top 35 Charles F. Haanel Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Charles F. Haanel

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2. “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

3. “The real secret of power is consciousness of power.”

— Charles F. Haanel

4. “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

5. “The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like, consequently, the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to its nature.”

— Charles F. Haanel

6. “You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.”

— Charles F. Haanel

7. “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

8. “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

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

— Charles F. Haanel

10. “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

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

— Charles F. Haanel

12. “You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way.”

— Charles F. Haanel

13. “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

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

— Charles F. Haanel

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

— Charles F. Haanel

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

— Charles F. Haanel

17. “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

18. “To improve our conditions we must first improve ourselves.”

— Charles F. Haanel

19. “The absolute truth is that the ‘I’ is perfect and complete; the real ‘I’ is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.”

— Charles F. Haanel

20. “Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.”

— Charles F. Haanel

21. “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

22. “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

23. “I can be whatever I will to be.”

— Charles F. Haanel

24. “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

25. “Every thought therefore 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

26. “The power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it.”

— Charles F. Haanel

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

33. “Walker says, “Mind in itself is believed to be a subtle form of static energy, from which arises the activities called ‘thought,’ which is the dynamic phase of mind. Mind is static energy, thought is dynamic energy – the two phases of the same thing.” Thought is therefore the vibratory force formed by converting static mind into dynamic mind.”

— Charles F. Haanel

34. “Eliminate, therefore, 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

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

— Charles F. Haanel

36. “FAITH is the “eternal elixir” which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!”

— Charles F. Haanel

37. “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

38. “The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.”

— Charles F. Haanel