W. Clement Stone Quotes

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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!"

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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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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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Give a kind word (with a kindly thought behind the word) — you will be kind and receive kind words.

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Give good thoughts (nature's character builder) — you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.

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