Quotes from The Master Key" by Charles Haanel

- "Every thought of yours is a real thing -- a force."

- "When you have inspired thought you have to trust it, you have to act on it."

- "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."

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

- "You create your own universe as you go along."

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

- "The principle which gives the thought the dynamic power to correlate with its object, and therefore to master every adverse human experience, is the law of attraction, which is another name for love. 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. It is feeling that imparts vitality to thought. Feeling is desire and desire is love. Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible."

- "See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don't fret and worry about them. Don't think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession."

- "You can have what you Want-if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is no dream that may no! come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you. The methods that work for one will work for any. The key to power lies in using what you have. . . freely, fully. . . and thus opening wide your channels for more Creative Force to flow through you."

- "Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."

- "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

- "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step."

- "That a man can change himself. . . and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought."

- "All that we are is a result of what we have thought."

- "If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the Universe, consider it well, and you wiI1 see that it is true."

- "Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude."

- "The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conducts by which your wealth will come to you."

- "What this power is I cannot say. An I know is that it exists."

- "Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success."

- "We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers."

- "Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth-yourself."

- "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

- "Whatever the mind. . . can conceive it can achieve."

- "The spiritual substance from which comes all visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it."

- "The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without."

- "To acquire love. . . fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet."

- "Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put in the body."

- "What you resist persists."

- "Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed."

- "Remember, and this is one of the most difficult as well as most wonderful statements to grasp. Remember that no matter what the difficulty is, no matter where it is, no matter who is affected, you have no patient but yourself; you have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth which you desire to see manifested."

- "The essence of this law is that you must think abundance; see abundance, feel abundance, believe abundance. Let no thought of limitation enter your mind."

- "If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the power that is yours. It is not a question of the Universal giving to you. It offers everything to everyone-there is no partiality."

- "Divine Mind is the one and only reality."

- "Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

- "All power is from within and therefore under our control."

- "A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it."

- "Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right."

- "When you visualize you materialize."

- "Man becomes what he thinks about."

- "Inner happiness is the fuel of success."

- "The real secret of power is consciousness of power."

- "The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease."

- "Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."