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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. William Clement Stone

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	William Clement Stone
	William Clement Stone (May 4, 1902 - September 3, 2002) was a prominent businessman, philanthropist and self-help book author. Stone is remembered for contributing $2 million to President Richard Nixon's election campaigns in 1968 and 1972—these were cited in Congressional debates after Watergate to institute campaign spending limits. Read More

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

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

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.

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

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

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

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.

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

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

Events tend to recur in cycles...

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success or are they holding you back?

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

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you...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.

You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.

That's why many fail because they don't get started they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

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

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.

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

We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

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

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

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