Charles F. Haanel
American author and businessman, 1866-1949
12 quotes.
Quotes by Charles F. Haanel
- At first we can't keep the evil thoughts from coming, but we can keep from entertaining them.
- Every success has been accomplished by persistent concentration upon the object in view.
- If we expect nothing, we shall have nothing; if we demand much, we shall receive the greater portion.
- Knowledge does not apply itself; we as individuals must make the application, and the application consists in fertilizing the thought with a living purpose.
- Man is the sum total of his own thoughts; so the question is, how are we going to entertain only the good thoughts and reject the evil ones?
- Mental habits are difficult to control, but it can be done and the way to do it is to begin at once to substitute constructive thought for destructive thought.
- 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.
- The athlete who wishes to get strong must make use of the strength he has, and the more he gives the more he will get.
- The cultivation of attention is the distinguishing characteristic of every successful man or woman, and is the very highest personal accomplishment which can be acquired.
- The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.
- The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view.
- Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.