W. Clement Stone

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

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

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.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

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

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer –committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.

Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even a little unsound, and no one is so diseased but that some part of him will be healthy — so no man is so mentally and morally sound, but that he will be in part both mad and wicked; and no man is so mad and wicked but he will be sensible and honourable in part. In like manner there is no genius who is not also a fool, and no fool who is not also a genius.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.