Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Vision, Prophecy, Journeys
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success, Success & Failure, Fortune, Luck
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
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Planning
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
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
We tend to live up to our expectations.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Expectation
You’ll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Boredom, Bores, Absence
What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Thought, Thoughts, Thinking
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
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Reality
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: Goals, Achievement
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Light
Excellence always sells.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Excellence
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: The Mind, Mind
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Enthusiasm
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
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
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: Riches, Wealth
Everything that’s really worthwhile in life comes to us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Worth
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 environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
—Earl Nightingale
When you judge others,
you do not define them, you define yourself.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Judges, Judging, Judgment
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life—or am I mass-motivated?
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Motivational, Motivation
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: Realism, Choice
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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Gratitude
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Cooperation, Help
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, Success & Failure
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Circumstance, Strength
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Attitude
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- Ken Keyes Jr. American Self-Help Author
- T. Harv Eker American Motivational Speaker
- Wayne Dyer American Self-help Author
- John C. Maxwell American Author, Speaker
- Mark Victor Hansen American Speaker, Author
- Byron Katie American Speaker
- Robert Ringer American Entrepreneur
- Robert Kiyosaki American Businessperson
- Zig Ziglar American Author
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