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.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

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.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

All I want to do is change the world.

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

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

Broken, like a mosaic, I am pieced together. I am still a piece of art, though I may not be fully appreciated by all, the ones that see the beauty, are the ones who have the understanding; gained through experience, that to break, doesn’t mean to give up.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.