W. Clement Stone

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

Big doors swing on little hinges.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

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

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.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it

Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found myself, myself as well.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

To inherit property is not to be born – it is to be still-born, rather.