W. Clement Stone

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

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.

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.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Sometimes if I see negative things it really doesn’t faze me, because you’ve got to be tough and you’ve got to be you.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.