William Clement Stone Quotes

"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.

seeking self-inspiration, to action, seeking know-how, and seeking knowledge.

Try to do the right thing because it is right.

Inspiration to action is the most important ingredient to success in any human activity

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

You and Psychiatry. (You and Psychiatry, Menninger and Leaf, Scribner's, New York, 1948)

For any mental or physical pain or suffering, regardless of how severe it might be, can in great part be neutralized by the satisfaction and joy of trying to help others. And that's worth living for.

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.

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

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

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.

The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.

Thought applies to an idea expressed or unexpressed that comes into your mind as a result of reflection, and reflection takes time.

book Cycles, co-authored by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin.