Top 100 Earl Nightingale Quotes
#1. Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.
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#4. 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.
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#5. We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
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#6. Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?
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#7. With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.
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#8. All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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#9. It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.
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#10. Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work.
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#11. To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.
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#12. Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.
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#13. The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.
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#14. If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.
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#15. 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.
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#16. With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it.
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#18. It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.
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#20. Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.
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#21. Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.
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#25. People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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#28. You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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#29. These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.
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#30. Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration. See
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#31. The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.
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#32. Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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#33. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
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#35. If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.
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#37. Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service
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#38. As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
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#39. When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself
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#40. Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
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#41. We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
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#44. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
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#46. We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
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#47. The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. It's the person who says, I'm going to become this and then progressively works toward that goal.
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#48. Prosperity is founded upon a law of mutual exchange. Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper, in turn, himself. Sometimes the return will not come from those you serve, but it must come to you from someplace, for that is the law.
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#49. 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.
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#51. Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them.
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#52. If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals.
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#53. Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time.
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#54. A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.
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#55. Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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#56. Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.
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#57. Failures ... believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.
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#58. Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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#59. Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
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#61. Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.
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#63. If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.
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#64. If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.
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#65. And the greatest teacher of them all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the Secret time and time again, As ye believe, so shall it be done, unto you.
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#66. Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
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#67. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
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#68. Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
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#69. Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
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#70. If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.
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#71. 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.
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#72. People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.
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#74. everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment".
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#75. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
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#76. If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
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#77. Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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#78. But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.
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#79. Shooting for the top will bring out the best that's in you.
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#80. One, you will become what you think about. Two, remember the word imagination. Let your mind soar. Three, courage. Concentrate on your goal everyday. Four, save 10 percent of what you earn and action. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.
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#81. Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
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#82. We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
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#84. 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
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#85. Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.
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#87. A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a worthy predetermined job, because that's what he decided to do ... deliberately.
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#88. 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
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#89. 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.
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#90. Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get
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#92. Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
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#94. We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.
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#95. Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.
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#96. People who have goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple.
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#97. In The Science of Getting Rich, W. D. Wattles wrote that we must always give more in service to our customers and to those around us than we are getting in return.
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#98. Every-time we use a product or service, someone is serving us.
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#99. When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.
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#100. We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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