W. Clement Stone

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

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

So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.

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

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

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.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

What is once well done is done forever.

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Your fingers caress my heart strings, shaping a silent sonnet in notes of love. Transcending space and time, bathing the ether in perfect harmony.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence – neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish – it is an imponderably valuable gift.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.