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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotes by Earl Nightingale (American Motivational Speaker)

Inspirational Quotations by Earl Nightingale (American Motivational Speaker)

Earl Nightingale (1921–89) was an American radio personality and motivational speaker and author. This “Dean of Personal Development” authored The Strangest Secret (1956,) widely admired as a great motivational work.

Nightingale was the writer and commentator of the popular syndicated radio show Our Changing World. He penned and recorded over 7,000 radio programs and 250 audio programs on motivation, personality development, and leading a meaningful life.

In 1950, Nightingale read Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich (1937) and was inspired by the adage “we become what we think about.” This mindset was the foundation of his tape-record and book The Strangest Secret, which sold millions of copies. Nightingale defined success as “the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. If a man is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where he’s going, that man is a success. If he’s not doing that, he’s a failure. And there you have the trouble today; it’s conformity—people acting like everyone without knowing why, without knowing where they’re going.”

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success, Goals

When you judge others,
you do not define them, you define yourself.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Judges, Judging, Judgment

Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Fear

We tend to live up to our expectations.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Expectation

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be—whether they will admit that or not.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Choice, Realism

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
Topics: Ideas

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
Topics: Action, Perseverance

You become what you think about.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Thinking

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Reality

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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Attitude

To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
—Earl Nightingale

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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Goal, Concentration

Everything begins with an idea.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Ideas

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Charity, Giving

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Fortune, Luck, Success & Failure, Success

You’ll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Absence, Bores, Boredom

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
Topics: Service

The big thing is that you know what you want.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Goals

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Mind, The Mind

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Opportunity

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Vision, Journeys, Prophecy

What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Thinking, Thought, Thoughts

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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success & Failure, Success

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
Topics: Wealth, Riches

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
Topics: Mistakes, Excellence

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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Desire, Desires

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own “acres of diamonds.”
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Opportunity

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Attitude

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!
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Work

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