Top 100 Earl Quotes
#2. Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.
Earl Nightingale
#3. I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
#5. Earl and I actually didn't have much in common with each other, either, but we were the only ten-year-olds in Pittsburgh who liked Aguirre, the Wrath of God, and that counted for something. It actually counted for a lot.
Jesse Andrews
#7. The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
Earl Warren
#8. Emil Drukker, the Head-hunter of Cologne.
Earl Peirce
#9. It was like trying to have a conversation with a distracted and very soggy scone. Every time he pushed in one direction the earl either oozed or crumbled.
Gail Carriger
#10. To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
Earl Wilson
#12. It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.
Earl Warren
#13. You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don't deserve it.
Rae Earl
#14. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.
Esther Earl
#15. We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.
Earl Nightingale
#16. Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional ... All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.
Earl Warren
#17. Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.
Earl Wilson
#18. Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
Earl Blumenauer
#19. I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.
Earl Sweatshirt
#20. I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.
Earl Weaver
#21. The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
Earl Warren
#22. What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers.
Rae Earl
#23. I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.
Russell B. Long
#24. Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.
Earl Nightingale
#26. Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
James Earl Jones
#28. A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Earl Wilson
#29. How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?
Earl Nightingale
#30. The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
Earl Browder
#31. Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
William Earl Maxwell
#32. It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.
Henry David Thoreau
#34. This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
Earl Weaver
#35. If you can compete, you are going to compete
Earl Lloyd
#36. William Shakespeare put it this way, Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Earl Nightingale
#39. I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
Earl Scruggs
#41. As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[
Michael S. Horton
#42. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Earl Weaver
#43. wiping tears off my face. "What's wrong?" she asked. Her slippers swished across the floor. "I could make tea." Kate's solution to everything was Earl Grey. "No, I'm good, thanks,
Jools Sinclair
#44. Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck
in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.
Earl Blumenauer
#46. I believe in love
Nicholas Davies - Earl of Aberdare
Mary Jo Putney
#49. And I remember telling God that whatever happens, happens. I remember telling myself He's in control.
Esther Earl
#52. 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.
Earl Nightingale
#53. Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
Earl Campbell
#54. In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Earl Warren
#55. That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another's labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.
Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough
#56. I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.
Willis Earl Beal
#57. I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver
#58. You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale
#59. Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
Earl Weaver
#61. If your opportunity comes and you are not prepared for it, it will only make you look foolish.
Earl Nightingale
#62. When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before.
Earl Campbell
#63. You weren't s
then, Tiger. You ain't s
now. You ain't never gonna be s
.
Earl Woods
#64. If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
Earl Warren
#65. To independence!" added Pocked Louise. "No fussy old widows telling us when not to speak, and how to set the spoons when an earl's niece comes to supper. And telling us to leave scientific experiments to the men.
Julie Berry
#67. Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?
Earl R. Smith II
#68. 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.
Earl Nightingale
#69. 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.
Earl Nightingale
#70. We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
Earl Nightingale
#71. Bible's Song of Solomon, "Love is strong as death." Or perhaps even stronger.
Esther Earl
#74. Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach. EARL NIGHTINGALE
Brian Tracy
#75. When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
Earl Monroe
#76. You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
Earl Weaver
#77. Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?
Earl Nightingale
#78. The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
Brian J. White
#79. At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
Earl Blumenauer
#80. The trouble with Earl Barrett is that he's one paced ... Zooommmmm.
Joe Royle
#82. Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#84. The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all times is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones.
Donald Faison
#85. I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.
James Earl Jones
#87. ...teaching is like playing jazz. Even if you perform the same number over and over, it never comes out the same twice, and you don't know exactly how it will sound until you hear it. Teaching is like writing with your voice
Earl R. Babbie
#88. The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#89. You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.
Earl Sweatshirt
#90. Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
Earl Wilson
#92. With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.
Earl Nightingale
#93. There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Earl Warren
#96. After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.
Earl Campbell
#97. Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.
Mervyn Peake
#98. By and by, the cause of my disease
Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.
Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey
#99. All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale
#100. My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
James Earl Jones
