W. Clement Stone

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

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.

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.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

Whenever I hear it can’t be done, I know I am close to success.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

A lot of people don’t like to win. They actually don’t know how to win, and they don’t like to win because down deep inside they don’t want to win.

I’ve always won, and I’m going to continue to win. And that’s the way it is.

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

If you want to double your success rate, you need to double your failure rate.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. We realized that being successful isn’t about being impressive, it’s about being inspired. That’s what it means to be true to yourself.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Success is not all about money. It’s about having the resources and the ability to live the life that you have personally dreamed of.