Charles F. Haanel Quotes

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

• Waiting
• Visible
• Recognizing
• Affirming

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• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

• Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Always
  • Going

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • School
  • Me

• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Humility
  • Come

• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Leadership
  • Throne
  • Bench

• I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Life
  • Music
  • Science

• I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• 'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Taken
  • Road

• I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Life
  • Help
  • Dream

• The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • God
  • Walking
  • Green

• Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

• Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Bad

• We built a business on relationships, and that's what matters to us.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Business

• Non-consensual, sexual advances are not the same as flirtatious comments from a creepy dude. The degree of harassment matters.

  

  Cheryl Yeoh
  • Creepy

• I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Up
  • Moments

• I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Home

• Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

  

  Paul O'Grady
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Formed

• We've been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don't want someone who will decide those issues for us - but decide them 'our' way. If we did, a White House bureaucrat with good horse sense might be just the ticket.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Good
  • House
  • Waiting

• With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. It's sort of similar when you walk into an audition room, to be able to go takes deep breath and then go in real calm. It was in those ways that it really helped me.

  

  Mia Wasikowska
  • Energy
  • Excited
  • Breath

• 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
  • Waiting
  • Visible
  • Recognizing