W. Clement Stone

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

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.

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.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

That’s what I can’t stand. I know I’ll bounce back, and that’s what I can’t stand.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there’s always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.