Earl Nightingale Quotes

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

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."

"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us."

"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!"

"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind."

"What's going on in the inside shows on the outside."

"People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not."

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm"

"Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."

"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."

"Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed."

"Excellence always sells"

"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."

"Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."

"Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together."