W. Clement Stone

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

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

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

For knowledge itself is power.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Remember who you are.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.