W. Clement Stone

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

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

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.

So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

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

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument; zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.