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.

People can and do change.

Never compete, create.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Everything begins with an idea.

Don't wait for change. You change.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The key that unlocks energy is desire.

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."

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

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

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

You become what you continually think about.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

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

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

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.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.

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

Perseverance is another word for faith!

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.

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.

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.

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

There is no limit on earnings.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Goals reflect your choice of destination.

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.

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.