W. Clement Stone Quotes

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

I have yet to meet someone who was successful who was even slightly negative. That comes from a muscle training. You can work on negativity and weed it out of your life. I've noticed that all of the people who acted as if they were going to be gone too soon, were gone too soon.

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down, you're going to have negative results. But if you feel like you're going to make it through and you have positive thoughts, you have a much better chance to survive and be successful and happy.

we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.

Think doubt and fail. Think victory and succeed.

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?