Earl nightingale quotes

Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.

The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free. But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.

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

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.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’

Excellence always sells.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

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

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.

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!

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. 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. 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.

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.

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

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

The key that unlocks energy is desire.

One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

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. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, 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.

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

Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

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.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

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.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

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

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.

That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

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

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

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

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our intelligence, our love of family and friends and country. All of these priceless possessions are free.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

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.

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

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. Don't try to do tomorrow's or next week's work today. It's not the number of things you do, but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that count. To achieve this "habit of success," you need only to focus on the most important tasks and succeed in each small task of each day.

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.

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.

Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.

You become what you continually think about.

Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.

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

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

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

Everything begins with an idea.

The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.

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

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

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.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.

Never compete, create.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

You can control your attitude. Set it each morning.

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

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

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

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.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.

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

We become what we think about.

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

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

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

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.

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

Goals reflect your choice of destination.

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.

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

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.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

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

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

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.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of 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. But for some reason most 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.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire

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.

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

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

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.

If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

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

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.

If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

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

What happens inside always appears outside.

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

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. Every dollar we will ever earn must come from people. The person we love, and with whom we want to spend the rest of our life, is a human being with whom we must interact. Our children are individuals, each different from any other person who ever lived. And what affects them most is our attitude-the loving kindness they see and feel whenever we are around them. 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.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

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.

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

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

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

Don't wait for change. You change.

Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ... dream ... create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.

But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.

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.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

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.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

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

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.

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

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.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

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