W. Clement Stone Quotes

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Every person's every action has an effect.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

No action is without its side effects.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Every choice you make has an end result.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.

I could make a difference.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

If you do something, expect consequences.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Everything I did in politics affected somebody.

You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.

Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.