Earl Nightingale was an American radio speaker and author, dealing mostly with the subjects of human character development, motivation, and meaningful existence. Profoundly inspirational Earl Nightingale quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Earl Nightingale Quotes
We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. – Earl Nightingale
All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning. – Earl Nightingale
Never compete, create. – Earl Nightingale
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be – whether they will admit that or not. – Earl Nightingale
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. Don’t try to do tomorrow’s or next week’s work today. It’s not the number of things you do, but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that count. To achieve this habit of success, you need only to focus on the most important tasks and succeed in each small task of each day. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others. – Earl Nightingale
Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your # career! – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Picture yourself in your mind’s eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you’ll be doing when you’ve reached your goal. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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 – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. – Earl Nightingale
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. – Earl Nightingale
Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It’s not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it’s how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health. – Earl Nightingale
People don’t have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness. – Earl Nightingale
Everything begins with an idea. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others. – Earl Nightingale
Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself. – Earl Nightingale
Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death. – Earl Nightingale
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared? – Earl Nightingale
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 the change. – Earl Nightingale
Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace. – Earl Nightingale
Visualization is the human being’s vehicle to the future – good, bad, or indifferent. It’s strictly in our control. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. – Earl Nightingale
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 – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. – Earl Nightingale
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity. – Earl Nightingale
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes! – Earl Nightingale
Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems. – Earl Nightingale
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. – Earl Nightingale
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 – Earl Nightingale
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
If you don’t have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That’s the person who says, ‘I’m going to become this’ and then begins to work toward that goal – Earl Nightingale
It’s difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything – a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them …, living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully. – Earl Nightingale
Goals reflect your choice of destination. – Earl Nightingale
We tend to live up to our expectations. – Earl Nightingale
A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude. – Earl Nightingale
About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they’re helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they’ll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us. – Earl Nightingale
We’ve got to be of service first before we can expect money. – Earl Nightingale
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
People can and do change. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Watch what everyone else does–do the opposite. The majority is always wrong. – Earl Nightingale
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts. – Earl Nightingale
The greatest thing on earth is a good idea! – Earl Nightingale
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
Security isn’t what the wise person looks for – it’s opportunity. – Earl Nightingale
Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others. – Earl Nightingale
Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be. – Earl Nightingale
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. – Earl Nightingale
You are now, and you do become, what you think about. – Earl Nightingale
Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service. – Earl Nightingale
If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich. – Earl Nightingale
We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it. – Earl Nightingale
Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude. – Earl Nightingale
It is our attitude toward life that determines life’s attitude toward us. We get back what we put out. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
You can control your attitude. Set it each morning. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
On Christmas morning, our joy or our happiness can be at a very high level, not because of our anticipation of what we might receive but, rather, in anticipation of watching our loved ones open our gifts to them. In fact, if we’re not careful, we can fail to register sufficient excitement and joy upon opening the gifts we receive from others. We must remember that they are happiest at that time and to give them top billing, to stretch their happiness to its full length. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. – Earl Nightingale
To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself. – Earl Nightingale
There is no limit on earnings. – Earl Nightingale
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. – Earl Nightingale
That’s the secret: be interesting. If you can’t be interesting, shut up. There’s nothing wrong with silence. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse. – Earl Nightingale
The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Shooting for the top will bring out the best that’s in you. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing? – Earl Nightingale
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. – Earl Nightingale
Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself. – Earl Nightingale
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
A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out. – Earl Nightingale
Don’t catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others. – Earl Nightingale
Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts – Earl Nightingale
Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’ – Earl Nightingale
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort. – Earl Nightingale
If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results. – Earl Nightingale
It’s never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime. – Earl Nightingale
It’s the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it. – Earl Nightingale
Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant. – Earl Nightingale
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. – Earl Nightingale
The key that unlocks energy is desire. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get – Earl Nightingale
Perseverance is another word for faith! – Earl Nightingale
Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others. – Earl Nightingale
Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life. – Earl Nightingale
What happens inside always appears outside. – Earl Nightingale
Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Every-time we use a product or service, someone is serving us. – Earl Nightingale
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness. – Earl Nightingale
What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. – Earl Nightingale
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
The big thing is that you know what you want. – Earl Nightingale
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! – Earl Nightingale
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] – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
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. – Earl Nightingale
