Earl Nightingale Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

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.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

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.

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

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.

People don’t have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

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

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.

We become what we think about.

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.

What happens inside always appears outside.

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.

 

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.

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

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

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

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

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.