W. Clement Stone

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

All I want to do is change the world.

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.

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

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.

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

All mankind love a lover.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Think with your whole body.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Nothing does more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.