W. Clement Stone Quotes

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

We translate into reality thoughts of poverty just as quickly as we do thoughts of riches. But when our attitude toward ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

Events tend to recur in cycles.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.

When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those to whom you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

When you become successful and a depression or any other unfavorable circumstance arises which causes you a loss or defeat, act on the self-motivator: Success is achieved by those who try and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude. This is the way to avoid being crushed.

You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Little hinges swing big doors.

Don't blame God for your lack of success.

Unless your goal is against the laws of God or society, you can achieve it.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Meet the most important living person! That person is you.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Big doors swing on little hinges.

When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.

Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite different. A skill in day-to-day living which adds up to a happy, love-filled life is success. You can have this and other riches, too. The choice is yours.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!