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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

#be careful #become #careful #choose #environment

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#because #do the right thing #face #integrity #keys

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

#carefully #dreams #goals #gusto #how

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#benefit #endeavor #equivalent #every #field

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. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#came #each #everyone #going #great

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#alone #give #giving #greatest #intangible

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 habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#controlling #developed #effectively #eliminate #established

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#become #careful #choose #friends #like

To be happy, make other people happy. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#happy #make #other #people

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

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