Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by W. Clement Stone - Page 2

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

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

Have the courage to face the truth

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.

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

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.

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

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.

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

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.

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't blame God for your lack of success.

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

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

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!"

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

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

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

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?

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.

To be energetic, act energetic.

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.

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.

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.

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.