William Clement Stone Quotes

inspiration to action, know-how, and activity knowledge. They are the keys to the system.

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

Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) — and you’ll smile and receive smiles...

Give time for a worthy cause (with eagerness) — you will be worthy and richly rewarded.

God is always a good God; right is right; and with every disadvantage there is a greater advantage, if one seeks and finds it.

the person's hot button has been pushed.

Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate — yes, give especially to those you don’t want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.

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.

focus your attention and effort to acquire the necessary knowledge, know-how and motivation to become an expert and achieve your specific desired objective.

The word know-how does not mean knowing how to do something-that's activity knowledge. Know-how is doing that something the right way, with skill and effectiveness, and with minimum expenditure of time and effort.

Now the essence of anything is abstract. It is never found. It is never reached. Yet if you search for the essence of perfection, you become more perfect. Search for the essence of success and you become more successful. Search for the essence of achievement and you achieve more.

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

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.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you, like Karl Eller, 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.

"Have the courage to say "no!" Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right."