Earl Nightingale Quotations

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

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.

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 the change.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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]

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

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

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

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

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

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

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

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Dont 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 its at work or with your family.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

You become what you continually think about.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

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

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

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

The key that unlocks energy is desire.

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

In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.

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

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.

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

Don't wait for change. You change.

Everything begins with an idea.

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

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

Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your #‎ career !

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our 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 can't get rich unless you EN-rich.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

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

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

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.

Every-time we use a product or service, someone is serving us.

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

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.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

Never compete, create.

People can and do change.

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

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

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.

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 become what we think about.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.

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.

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

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.