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.

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.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

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.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

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.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.