W. Clement Stone (personal achievement starts in the mind)

William Clement Stone (May 4, 1902 – September 3, 2002) was a businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author.

Stone ran $100 into millions with a strong desire to succeed and by putting into practice the principles in the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

In 1919, Stone built the Combined Insurance Company of America (a company providing accident and health insurance coverage) and by 1930, he had over 1000 agents selling insurance for him across the United States. By 1979, his insurance company exceeded $1 billion in assets.

Stone emphasized using a "positive mental attitude" to succeed.[1] Stone adopted the motto of his mentor, Napoleon Hill, "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

W. Clement Stone Quotes

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

W. Clement Stone

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

W. Clement Stone

Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back?

W. Clement Stone

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

W. Clement Stone

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

W. Clement Stone

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

W. Clement Stone

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

W. Clement Stone

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

Little hinges swing big doors.

W. Clement Stone

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

To be happy, make other people happy.

W. Clement Stone

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

W. Clement Stone

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

W. Clement Stone

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

W. Clement Stone

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

W. Clement Stone

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.

W. Clement Stone

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

W. Clement Stone

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

W. Clement Stone

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

W. Clement Stone

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

W. Clement Stone

If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.

W. Clement Stone

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

W. Clement Stone

Prayer is mans greatest power!

W. Clement Stone

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

W. Clement Stone

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

W. Clement Stone

I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

W. Clement Stone

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

W. Clement Stone

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!

W. Clement Stone

Zig Ziglar (You can have everything in life )

https://youtu.be/2W7kujdcS40

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (November 6, 1926 – November 28, 2012) was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.

Ziglar Is Specialized In Personal Development Training, Providing Coaching For Presentation Skills, Sales, Small Business Owners. etc.

Zig Ziglar invested his life helping others get everything they want out of life.

Zig Ziglar Quotes

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

Zig Ziglar

You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility.

Zig Ziglar

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

Zig Ziglar

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

Zig Ziglar

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Zig Ziglar

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Zig Ziglar

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

Zig Ziglar

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them,

and that's not training them and keeping them

Zig Ziglar

One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.

Zig Ziglar

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Zig Ziglar

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Zig Ziglar

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

Zig Ziglar

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Zig Ziglar

What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.

Zig Ziglar

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Zig Ziglar

It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.

Zig Ziglar

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Zig Ziglar

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Zig Ziglar

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Zig Ziglar

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

Zig Ziglar

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

Zig Ziglar

God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.

Zig Ziglar

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

Zig Ziglar

  

First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.

Zig Ziglar

Wayne Dyer (If you believe it will work out)

https://youtu.be/04878zAfTi4

Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. His first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), is one of the best-selling books of all time.

Dyer's message resonated with many in the New Thought Movement and beyond. He often recounted anecdotes from his family life and repeatedly used his own life experience as an example.

Wayne Dyer Quotes

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

Wayne Dyer

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

Wayne Dyer

Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life.

Wayne Dyer

Remain faithful to the light... Remember, the sun is shining behind the clouds.

Wayne Dyer

If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.

Wayne Dyer

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Wayne Dyer

If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

Wayne Dyer

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Wayne Dyer

Good morning, this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day.

Wayne Dyer

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Wayne Dyer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Wayne Dyer

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

Wayne Dyer

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

Wayne Dyer

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

Wayne Dyer

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Wayne Dyer

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Wayne Dyer

By Feeling Good Throughout the Day, you Become an Instrument of Peace

Wayne Dyer

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Wayne Dyer

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.

Wayne Dyer

You'll never find light by analysing the darkness.

Wayne Dyer

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

Wayne Dyer

Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice.

Wayne Dyer

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

Wayne Dyer

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.

Wayne Dyer

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Wayne Dyer

That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.

Wayne Dyer

Swami Vivekananda (A spiritual genius of commanding intellect and power)

Swami Vivekananda, known in his pre-monastic life as Narendra Nath Datta, was born in an affluent family in Kolkata on 12 January 1863. Swami Vivekananda ended the cultural isolation of India and introduced Indian philosophy to the World.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Swami Vivekananda

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

Swami Vivekananda

So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.

Swami Vivekananda

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Swami Vivekananda

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts

Swami Vivekananda

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!

Swami Vivekananda

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

Swami Vivekananda

Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.

Swami Vivekananda

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

Swami Vivekananda

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Swami Vivekananda

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet

Swami Vivekananda

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.

Swami Vivekananda

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

Swami Vivekananda

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Swami Vivekananda

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

Swami Vivekananda

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Swami Vivekananda

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!

Swami Vivekananda

All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.

Swami Vivekananda

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

Swami Vivekananda

You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.

Swami Vivekananda

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

Swami Vivekananda

Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.

Swami Vivekananda

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

Swami Vivekananda

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

Swami Vivekananda

Thomas Alva Edison (Opportunity is missed by most people…)

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Work while others are wishing.

Thomas A. Edison

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

Thomas A. Edison

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas A. Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

Thomas A. Edison

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Thomas A. Edison

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.

Thomas A. Edison

Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

Thomas A. Edison

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

Thomas A. Edison

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas A. Edison

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

Thomas A. Edison

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Thomas A. Edison

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

Thomas A. Edison

There is a better way for everything. Find it.

Thomas A. Edison

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

Thomas A. Edison

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

Thomas A. Edison

I get my ideas from listening from within.

Thomas A. Edison

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

Thomas A. Edison

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

Thomas A. Edison

Do the thing and the power will come.

Thomas A. Edison

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

Thomas A. Edison

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....

Thomas A. Edison

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Thomas A. Edison

Stephen R Covey (Effectiveness to Greatness-take time to sharpen the saw)

Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time.

Stephen Covey Quotes

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

Stephen Covey

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Stephen Covey

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Stephen Covey

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

Stephen Covey

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

Stephen Covey

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

Stephen Covey

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen Covey

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Stephen Covey

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

Stephen Covey

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Stephen Covey

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Stephen Covey

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

Stephen Covey

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

Stephen Covey

By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

Stephen Covey

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Stephen Covey

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Stephen Covey

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Stephen Covey

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

Stephen Covey

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey

When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.

Stephen Covey

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

Stephen Covey

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Stephen Covey

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

Stephen Covey

Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.

Stephen Covey

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

Stephen Covey