W. Clement Stone

There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

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.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

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.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?

The future is purchased by the present.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.