The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: The Mind, Mind
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Giving, Charity
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Attitude
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
The big thing is that you know what you want.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Goals
When you judge others,
you do not define them, you define yourself.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Judges, Judgment, Judging
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
Everything that’s really worthwhile in life comes to us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Worth
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Enthusiasm
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
Excellence always sells.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Excellence
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Planning
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
You’ll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Boredom, Bores, Absence
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 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
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: Purpose, 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: Wealth, Riches
What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Thinking
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success, Goals
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Circumstance, Strength
To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
—Earl Nightingale
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
—Earl Nightingale
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
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success & Failure, Luck, Success, Fortune
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
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
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Help, Cooperation
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success, Success & Failure
We tend to live up to our expectations.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Expectation
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