Earl Nightingale Quotes

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.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

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

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

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

We become what we think about.

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

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free. But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality

Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.

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

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

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.

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.

Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.

A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

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

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

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.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.

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!

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our intelligence, our love of family and friends and country. All of these priceless possessions are free.

Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.

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

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

Never compete, create.

Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.

How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?

One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.

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.

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.

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.

What happens inside always appears outside.

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