W. Clement Stone

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

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.

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

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

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Make a good use of the present.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.