W. Clement Stone

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

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.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

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

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

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.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau Henry Thoreaus auntHenry, why are you here? Waldo, why are you not here?

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.