Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Wisdom
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Quotes by W. Clement Stone
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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.
Courage
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
Wisdom
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?
Success
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.
Success
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.
Success
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Friendship
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
Success
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Truth
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.
Success
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Wisdom
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
Wisdom
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.
Success
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
Success
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
Wisdom
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.
Love
Prayer is man's greatest power!
Wisdom
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