W. Clement Stone

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

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.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

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

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

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.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.

We love and lose in China, we weep on England’s moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we’re the same.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men’s minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.