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.

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

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

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

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.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

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

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.