W. Clement Stone Quotes

If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

Positive attitude is the foundation of your life - and the determining factor of your ability to serve.

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.

A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.

When you work towards your goals, you become healthier and healthier, mentally. It is very hard to do with a negative attitude. You just need to become more and more positive. And then you start to succeed. And starting to succeed is like winning a race and having the audience cheer. That makes you feel happy and motivates you to work even harder and achieve even more.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

Aptitude starts with attitude.

The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc.

A victor's mentality becomes a victor's reality.

Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.

I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

Mentality is where the success is. I will teach the kids how to think in a positive way.

So I had to change my mental outlook from, 'wow, this is Lee Haney, the icon we are all trying to aspire to,' to, 'this is the guy I am trying to beat.' I thought, 'I can't be in awe of this guy because, if that is your attitude then you're not going to have much chance of winning.'

It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

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!"

Attitude isn’t everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.