William Clement Stone

"Congress sets the rules and says: "Save all the taxes you can, but play the game according to the rules. If there is an inequity, we'll change the rules.

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.

But you must have knowledge and know-how to interpret the meaning of what you observe

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a 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.

You may be inspired to desirable action to fulfill your good intentions, but you may lack the necessary knowledge, or you may neglect to use the required skills if you have them, and thus you may fail to develop new habit patterns.

Every Adversity Has the Seed of an Equivalent or Greater Benefit.

To get help from without, extract the good where you can find it. And this starts from within: the right mental attitude toward persons, places, things, knowledge, customs, beliefs-be they your own or others.

Epictetus said: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

All the world's progress in every field of activity has been the result of action by men, and women who experienced inspirational dissatisfaction-never by those who were satisfied

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.

One way to make a fortune is to sell a necessity that is low in cost and repeats.

four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.

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

Give encouragement (the incentive to action) — you will have courage and be encouraged.

you should concentrate the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass on one spot on a fallen log, you'd start a fire within a few minutes. Yet the sun could shine for decades on the same piece of wood and it wouldn't ignite without the glass.