Men and women remain in minor clerical positions all of their lives because they never display initiative in their work, never attempt to find new ways of doing their work, and never suggest improvements. - Claude M. Bristol
No one ever defeated a resolute will. Even death stands still before such a will. - Claude M. Bristol
Positive creative thought leads to action and ultimate realization, but the real power, much more than action itself, is the thought. Remember always: Whatever man can conceive mentally, he can bring into materialization. - Claude M. Bristol
Repetition of negative thoughts will discourage even the most powerful if continued long enough, and unless your mind is closed against them and you counteract them by constantly thinking and radiating positive thoughts, you will sooner or later find yourself sunk. - Claude M. Bristol
Success is a matter of never ceasing application . You must forever work at it diligently. Otherwise it takes wings and flies away. - Claude M. Bristol
The more interest you take in your work, naturally the more attention you give it, and the greater are the results. - Claude M. Bristol
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all great achievements. - Claude M. Bristol
To become the person you would like to be, you create a mental picture of your newly conceived self, and if you continue to hold it, the day will come when you are in reality, that person. - Claude M. Bristol
What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. - Claude M. Bristol
Whatever we fix our thoughts upon, or steadily focus our imaginations upon, that is what we attract. - Claude M. Bristol
Whether we know it or not, we are all engaged in the selling of something; if not our wares, then our personalities, our services, our ideas. - Claude M. Bristol
You must have a mental pattern clearly drawn in your mind. Ask yourself, where am I headed? What is my goal? Have I visualized just what I really want? If success is to be measured in terms of wealth, can you fix the amount in figures? If in terms of achievement, can you specify it definitely? - Claude M. Bristol
Analyse your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? - 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
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. - W. Clement Stone