W. Clement Stone Quotes
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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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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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.
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All I want to do is change the world.
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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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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.
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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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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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Give encouragement (the incentive to action) - you will have courage and be encouraged.
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Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) - you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.
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When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.
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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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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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You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.