Earl Nightingale Quotes

With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it.

People can and do change.

Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.

It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.

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.

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.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

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.

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.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.

Perseverance is another word for faith!

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.

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

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.

Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.

Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.

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

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.

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.

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

We become what we think about.

They do not know that by thinking in new directions (which has been called the definition of genius) they can bring new directions into their lives. Most of them are marking time, as if they have a non-cancelable contract with life. How can we rise above our more egregious mistakes if we just mark time! Let's do it better than it's been done before. Let's find our partner in the freest, richest land on earth and do something wonderful with this holiday we've been mysteriously granted.

You can't get rich unless you EN-rich.

You can control your attitude. Set it each morning.

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.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. It's the person who says, I'm going to become this and then progressively works toward that goal.

Don't wait for change. You change.

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.

William Shakespeare put it this way, Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

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.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

Successful people are not without problems. They're simply people who've learned to solve their problems.

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a worthy predetermined job, because that's what he decided to do ... deliberately.

Failures ... believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

We've got to put the fuel in before we can expect heat. Likewise, we've got to be of service first before we can expect money. Don't concern yourself with the money. Be of service. Build. Work. Dream. Create. Do this and you'll find that there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.

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.

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.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

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.

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

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.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

You must radiate success before it'll come to you.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Excellence always sells.

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

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.

You become what you think about.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Achieve the success they truly desire because they get impatient. They want easy success or none at all. They see the path to success as a frustration, an impediment. Each day spent short of the ultimate goal is viewed as a time of failure and as an annoyance. As such, they get distracted by hundreds of little things that each day try to get us off our course. Yet the successful among us know the truth:

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.

What happens inside always appears outside.

Never compete, create.

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

as you believe so shall it be done unto you.

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

On Christmas morning, our joy or our happiness can be at a very high level, not because of our anticipation of what we might receive but, rather, in anticipation of watching our loved ones open our gifts to them. In fact, if we're not careful, we can fail to register sufficient excitement and joy upon opening the gifts we receive from others. We must remember that they are happiest at that time and to give them top billing, to stretch their happiness to its full length.

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.

Goals reflect your choice of destination.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

If your opportunity comes and you are not prepared for it, it will only make you look foolish.

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.

Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.

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.

Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.

Watch what everyone else does
do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

You become what you continually think about.

Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get

How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

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.

You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.