W. Clement Stone Quotes

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.

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

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.

- W. Clement Stone

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.

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

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?

- W. Clement Stone

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

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.

- W. Clement Stone

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

- W. Clement Stone

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

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.

- W. Clement Stone

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

- W. Clement Stone

All I want to do is change the world.

- W. Clement Stone

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

- W. Clement Stone

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.

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

Events tend to recur in cycles.

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

- W. Clement Stone

Big doors swing on little hinges.

- W. Clement Stone

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.

- W. Clement Stone

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone

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.

- W. Clement Stone

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

- W. Clement Stone

Prayer is man's greatest power!

- W. Clement Stone

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.

- W. Clement Stone

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.

- W. Clement Stone

To be happy, make other people happy.

- W. Clement Stone

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

- W. Clement Stone