W. Clement Stone Quotes
"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
(Related: People, Attitude, Negative, Positive, Difference)
"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
(Related: Love, Giving, Joy, Sharing)
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Fear, Action, Thinking, Will)
"To be happy, make other people happy."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: People)
"To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage."
- W. Clement Stone
"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Truth, Ignorance, Understanding, Will)
"Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Trying)
"We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'"
- W. Clement Stone
"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?"
- W. Clement Stone
"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Control, Thoughts, Emotions)
"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
(Related: Habit, Wrong)
"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Mind, Repetition)
"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
(Related: Power, Act, Choice, May, Want)
"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
(Related: Life, Success, Environment, Will)
"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
(Related: Abundance, Giving, Possessions, Will)
"Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Want)
"Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Help, Want, Will)
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Man, Mind)
"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
(Related: Success, Time, Obstacles)
"All I want to do is change the world."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Change, Want, World)
"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
(Related: Achievement, Goal, Desire, First, Mind)
"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
(Related: Environment, Friends, Will)
"Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Friends, Will)
"Big doors swing on little hinges."
- W. Clement Stone
"Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Negative, Thoughts)
"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Achievement, Purpose)
"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Success, Trying)
"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
(Related: Successful, Adversity, Lies, Magic, Man)
"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
(Related: Life, Truth, Courage, Integrity, Living, Magic, Right)
"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share."
- 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
(Related: Experience, Success, People, Attitude, Failure, Positive, Thoughts, Learning, Order)
"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Dreams, Goals, Will)
"Prayer is mans greatest power!"
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Prayer)
"Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Self)
"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Attitude, Sales)
"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: May, Moon)
"Events tend to recur in cycles."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Events)