W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone

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.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

To be happy, make other people happy.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Prayer is man’s greatest power!

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

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?

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

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

You are called a square peg in a round hole when you work or engage in activities that do not come naturally, and that are inwardly repellent. In such an unhappy situation you can change your position and place ourselves find in an environment that is pleasing to you.

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.

You become alerted to opportunities that will help you achieve your objectives as they present themselves in your everyday experiences. because you know what you want, you are more likely to recognize these opportunities.

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

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it s a tough problem. Then double congratulations

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

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

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. The more you give — the more you will have!

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

What’s a few million dollars? Everything’s relative.

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

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.