W. Clement Stone

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

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

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

All I want to do is change the world.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

A lot of power and bravery is practice. And some of that is taking the risk to try and be at the table. And then when you’re at the table, taking that first risk to open your mouth and risk being rejected.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That’s right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That’s democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.