Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Attitude
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own “acres of diamonds.”
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Opportunity
We tend to live up to our expectations.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Expectation
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Mind, The Mind
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success & Failure, Success
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Planning
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: 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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Enjoyment, Purpose
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
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
—Earl Nightingale
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Luck, Success, Fortune, Success & Failure
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Goals, Success
When you judge others,
you do not define them, you define yourself.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Judgment, Judging, Judges
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
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Enthusiasm
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
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Planning
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
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life—or am I mass-motivated?
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Motivation, Motivational
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: The Mind, Mind
You become what you think about.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Thought, Thoughts, Thinking
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: Perseverance, Action
What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Thoughts, Thinking, Thought
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
You’ll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Bores, Boredom, Absence
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
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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Achievement, Goals
Everything that’s really worthwhile in life comes to us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Worth
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
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
Everything begins with an idea.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Ideas
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Light
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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Enjoyment
All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Goals
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
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Prophecy, Journeys, Vision
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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Thinking, Passion
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Charity, Giving
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: Desires, Desire
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
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