W. Clement Stone

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

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.

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

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

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.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Every time I think I have reached the peak, I look up and see I still have a ways to go. But I look back and see just how far I have come.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.