Top 70 W. Clement Stone Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

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5. “Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”

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

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7. “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.”

— W. Clement Stone

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8. “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.”

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

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

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11. “All I want to do is change the world.”

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12. “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?”

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13. “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.”

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14. “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.”

— W. Clement Stone

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

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16. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “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.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “To be energetic, act energetic.”

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22. “Little hinges swing big doors.”

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

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24. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.”

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

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26. “I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!”

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27. “You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.”

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28. “Big doors swing on little hinges.”

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29. “When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.”

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Featured in: Self Control Quotes

30. “To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.”

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

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32. “Have the courage to face the truth.”

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

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34. “Prayer is mans greatest power!”

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

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36. “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.”

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

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38. “Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.”

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39. “All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.”

— W. Clement Stone

40. “To be happy, make other people happy.”

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41. “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!!!”

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42. “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.”

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

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44. “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.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “It takes less work to succeed than to fail.”

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47. “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.”

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

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49. “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.”

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50. “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.”

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