Quotes from W. Clement Stone

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

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.

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.

To be happy, make other people happy.

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

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.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

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!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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