Earl Nightingale Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Earl Nightingale
If your opportunity comes and you are not prepared for it, it will only make you look foolish. — Earl Nightingale
Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed. — Earl Nightingale
Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might. — Earl Nightingale
If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results. — Earl Nightingale
That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence. — Earl Nightingale
Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time. — Earl Nightingale
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness. — Earl Nightingale
Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself. — Earl Nightingale
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything-a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood, landscape gardening. But somehow people wait passively for success to come to them, living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully. — Earl Nightingale
1. Give yourself a definite goal. 2. Quit running yourself down. 3. Stop thinking of all the reasons you cannot be successful and instead, think of all the reasons why you can. 4. Trace your attitudes back through your childhood and try to discover where you first got the idea you couldn't be successful - if that's the way you've been thinking. 5. Change the attitude you have of yourself by writing out the description of the person you'd like to be. 6. Act the part of the successful person you have decided to become. — Earl Nightingale
Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy. — Earl Nightingale
One extra hour of study per day and you 'll be a national expert in five years or less — Earl Nightingale
The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off. — Earl Nightingale
Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this goal. See your self doing the things you will be doing when you have reached your goal. — Earl Nightingale
Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control. — Earl Nightingale
Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others. — Earl Nightingale
Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal. — Earl Nightingale
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. — Earl Nightingale
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving. — Earl Nightingale
A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude. — Earl Nightingale
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed. — Earl Nightingale
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. — Earl Nightingale
Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. — Earl Nightingale
Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it ... there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone — Earl Nightingale
In The Science of Getting Rich, W. D. Wattles wrote that we must always give more in service to our customers and to those around us than we are getting in return. — Earl Nightingale
Every-time we use a product or service, someone is serving us. — Earl Nightingale
By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist. — Earl Nightingale
Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you. — Earl Nightingale
Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice! — Earl Nightingale
Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work. — Earl Nightingale
You must radiate success before it'll come to you. — Earl Nightingale
Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully. — Earl Nightingale
Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration. See — Earl Nightingale
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach. — Earl Nightingale
Everything begins with an idea. — Earl Nightingale
It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime. — Earl Nightingale
Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe. — Earl Nightingale
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. — Earl Nightingale
Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you. — Earl Nightingale
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. — Earl Nightingale
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. — Earl Nightingale
You are now, and you do become, what you think about. — Earl Nightingale
Getting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all - you commit yourself - and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get. — Earl Nightingale
If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see. — Earl Nightingale
Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life. — Earl Nightingale
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become. — Earl Nightingale
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. — Earl Nightingale
Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy. — Earl Nightingale
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. — Earl Nightingale
Perseverance is another word for faith! — Earl Nightingale
The big thing is that you know what you want. — Earl Nightingale
Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them. — Earl Nightingale
George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." Well, — Earl Nightingale
If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals. — Earl Nightingale
Instead of competing, all we have to do is create. — Earl Nightingale
Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death. — Earl Nightingale
Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant. — Earl Nightingale
Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality — Earl Nightingale
Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness. — Earl Nightingale
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about. — Earl Nightingale
To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal. — Earl Nightingale
Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be. — Earl Nightingale
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored — Earl Nightingale
Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts. — Earl Nightingale
And the greatest teacher of them all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the Secret time and time again, As ye believe, so shall it be done, unto you. — Earl Nightingale
People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes. — Earl Nightingale
The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us. — Earl Nightingale
Goals reflect your choice of destination. — Earl Nightingale
Courage changes things for the better ... [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped. — Earl Nightingale
Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others. — Earl Nightingale
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. — Earl Nightingale
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity. — Earl Nightingale
Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind. — Earl Nightingale
If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite. — Earl Nightingale
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. — Earl Nightingale
Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures. — Earl Nightingale
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all. — Earl Nightingale
You are what you think about. — Earl Nightingale
If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives. — Earl Nightingale
And yet, it's the last place on earth the average person will turn to for help. You know why? You know why people don't automatically turn their own vast mental resources on when faced with a problem? It's because they never learned how to think. Most people will go to any length to avoid thinking when they're faced with a problem. They will ask advice from the most illogical people, usually people who don't know any more than they do: next-door neighbors, members of their families, and friends stuck in the same mental traps that they are. Very few of them use the muscles of their mind to solve their problems. — Earl Nightingale
Never compete, create. — Earl Nightingale
Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live. — Earl Nightingale
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us. — Earl Nightingale
Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts — Earl Nightingale
Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them. — Earl Nightingale
We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken. — Earl Nightingale
A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out. — Earl Nightingale
There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard. — Earl Nightingale
No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others. — Earl Nightingale
I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude. — Earl Nightingale
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. — Earl Nightingale
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. — Earl Nightingale
Prosperity is founded upon a law of mutual exchange. Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper, in turn, himself. Sometimes the return will not come from those you serve, but it must come to you from someplace, for that is the law. — Earl Nightingale
There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win. — Earl Nightingale