Teachers & Authors

Definitions Through the Years

The Law of Attraction has been explained in many ways by many voices. Explore how each teacher understood and taught this principle.

Napoleon Hill
Author of Think and Grow Rich · 1883–1970
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Hill described the Law of Attraction as the power of definite purpose backed by faith. He taught that sustained, emotionally charged thought

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Wallace D. Wattles
Author of The Science of Getting Rich · 1860–1911
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.

Wattles taught that by forming a clear mental image of what you want and holding gratitude and faith, you cause the formless substance to mo

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Charles F. Haanel
Author of The Master Key System · 1866–1949
The world without is a reflection of the world within.

Haanel presented the Law of Attraction as a mental law: the outer world mirrors the inner world of thought, belief, and imagination. He emph

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Neville Goddard
Mystical Teacher and Author · 1905–1972
Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled.

Neville taught that imagination—not external conditions—is the creative power. To attract a new reality, you must first live inwardly as tho

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Bob Proctor
Success Coach and Speaker · 1934–2022
Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Proctor explained the Law of Attraction as the interplay between self-image, belief, and vibration. He taught that changing your paradigm—th

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Jack Canfield
Co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul · born 1944
You only have control over three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take.

Canfield presents the Law of Attraction as a practical formula: clarity of intention plus vivid visualization plus consistent action plus em

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Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret · born 1951
The law of attraction says like attracts like, so whatever you think, whatever you feel, you are attracting to you.

Byrne popularized the idea that your thoughts are magnetic: whatever you focus on—whether wanted or unwanted—you attract into your experienc

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