W. Clement Stone

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

The public must and will be served.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

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

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

I’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Choose people who lift you up.