W. Clement Stone

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

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Events tend to recur in cycles…

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

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.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Once you truly understand that it is okay to lose or fail, you are free, you have nothing to fear, and only then, can nothing in this world hold you back.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Cultivate kindness today and always.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.