Quotes By W. Clement Stone

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

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

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

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

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.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

All I want to do is change the world.

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.

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

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

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

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

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.

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.

Big doors swing on little hinges.

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?

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

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.

Prayer is mans greatest power!

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

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.

We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

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