W. Clement Stone

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

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.

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

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

It always seems impossible until its done.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.