Top 194 Quotes & Sayings by Earl Nightingale - Page 2

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

That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.

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.

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.

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

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

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.

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.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

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.

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

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

Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.

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.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

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

We become what we think about.

Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

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

The key that unlocks energy is desire.

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

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

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

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

Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.

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.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

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.

Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

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.

Never compete, create.

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

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.

If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

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.

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

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

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

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

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

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.

Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ... dream ... create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.

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.

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.

Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. Every dollar we will ever earn must come from people. The person we love, and with whom we want to spend the rest of our life, is a human being with whom we must interact. Our children are individuals, each different from any other person who ever lived. And what affects them most is our attitude-the loving kindness they see and feel whenever we are around them. If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

You can control your attitude. Set it each morning.

We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire