Earl Nightingale Quotes

"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."

"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us."

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."

"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."

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

"Everything begins with an idea."

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."

"The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts."

"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!"

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."

"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."

"People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not."

"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."

"Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet."

"What's going on in the inside shows on the outside."

"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

"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."

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."

"You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'"

"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind."

"Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together."

"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."

"Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."

"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."

"Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people."

"Excellence always sells."

"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."