W. Clement Stone

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

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.

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

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.

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.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people

Round numbers are always false.

The soul’s emphasis is always right.

A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

It’s the ones that stayed after the Exodus, that I knew were real and could handle the truth; that would stay with me on my journey, for better or worse.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.