Top 100 Earl Nightingale Quotes
#1. Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach. EARL NIGHTINGALE
Brian Tracy
#2. Great American thinker and philosopher Earl Nightingale said, "If you spend one extra hour each day in the study of your chosen field, you'll be a national expert in five years or less." What do you want to be an expert in?
Abby Beale
#3. Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
Zig Ziglar
#4. Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.
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#5. We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.
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#6. Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.
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#8. How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?
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#10. William Shakespeare put it this way, Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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#12. If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
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#13. You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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#14. If your opportunity comes and you are not prepared for it, it will only make you look foolish.
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#15. 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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#16. 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.
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#17. We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
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#18. 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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#19. With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.
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#20. All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#26. 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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#27. We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.
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#31. With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it.
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#33. It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.
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#35. 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 we changed.
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#36. Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
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#37. Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.
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#38. Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
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#39. Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.
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#40. You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.
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#41. Getting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all - you commit yourself - and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get.
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#42. 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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#43. Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.
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#45. 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!
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#46. People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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#51. 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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#52. There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard.
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#53. It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
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#54. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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#55. One extra hour of study per day and you 'll be a national expert in five years or less
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#56. You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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#57. In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.
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#58. Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.
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#59. 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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#60. Courage changes things for the better ... [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
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#61. Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration. See
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#63. A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.
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#64. The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.
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#65. Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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#66. There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.
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#67. 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.
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#68. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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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#76. Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service
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#77. As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
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#78. When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself
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#79. Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.
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#80. Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
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#81. 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.
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#83. The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.
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#84. Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.
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#85. We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
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#86. The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.
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#89. Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
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#90. 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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#91. Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.
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#93. We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. 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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#98. That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
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#100. 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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