W. clement stone quotes

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

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?

We are masters, first, of our attitudes. Our attitudes shape our future. This is a universal law.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.

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.

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

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

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Big doors swing on little hinges.

Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

We translate into reality thoughts of poverty just as quickly as we do thoughts of riches. But when our attitude toward ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

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

Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Unless your goal is against the laws of God or society, you can achieve it.

Little hinges swing big doors.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

Meet the most important living person! That person is you.

To be happy, make other people happy.

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back?

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful and happy

A man of 25 has before him some 100,000 working hours should he retire at 65. How many of your working hours will be alive with the magnificent force of positive mental attitude? And how many of them will have the life knocked out of them with the stunning blows of negative mental attitude?

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.

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.

When you become successful and a depression or any other unfavorable circumstance arises which causes you a loss or defeat, act on the self-motivator: Success is achieved by those who try and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude. This is the way to avoid being crushed.

Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.

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

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

Have the courage to face the truth

PMA is the right mental attitude for each specific occasion. It has the power to attract the good and the beautiful. NMA repels them. It is a negative mental attitude that robs you of all that makes life worth living.

You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

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.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

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

Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite different. A skill in day-to-day living which adds up to a happy, love-filled life is success. You can have this and other riches, too. The choice is yours.

With every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who are motivated with positive mental attitude to become achievers.

Accept the priceless gift - the joy of work. Apply the greatest value in life: love people and serve them. You will attract big and generous portions of success.

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Don't blame God for your lack of success.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

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

Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with positive mental attitude. What you try for is up to you.

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.

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

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.

I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

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.

Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.

Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

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.

If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.

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

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.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

If you know what you want, you can find a way to get it.

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

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

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

You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those to whom you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!

To be energetic, act energetic.

Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.

Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

All I want to do is change the world.

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.

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.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.

When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.

Prayer is mans greatest power!

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

So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.

When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.