W. Clement Stone

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.

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

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.

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.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

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.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

What is once well done is done forever.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.