You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
—W. Clement Stone
Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give o the fortunate; give to the unfortunate – yes, give especially to those you don’t want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The ore you give, the more you will have!
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Abundance
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
—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
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Self-talk, Confidence
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
—W. Clement Stone
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Mindsets, Difficulties, Adversity, Blessings, Optimism, Silver Linings
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
—W. Clement Stone
When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Life
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
Topics: Business, Adversity, Attitude, Belief, Choices, Choice, Desires, Goals
Events tend to recur in cycles…
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: History, Events
Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Freedom
To be happy, make other people happy.
—W. Clement Stone
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Questions
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
Topics: Control
All I want to do is change the world.
—W. Clement Stone
When thinking won’t cure fear, action will.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Anxiety, Fear
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Sharing
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
—W. Clement Stone
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Goals, Ideas
You can 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
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
Topics: Obstacles, Difficulty
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Planning
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
—W. Clement Stone
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Entrepreneurs
So many fail because they don’t get started—they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Beginnings, Action, Failure
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman—not the attitude of the prospect.
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Shopping
We have a problem. “Congratulations.” But it’s a tough problem. “Then double congratulations.”
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Problems, Fortune, Worry, Positive Attitudes, Optimism, Mindsets
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
Topics: Bravery, Courage
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions…
—W. Clement Stone
Topics: Self-Control, Control
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