Earl Nightingale
American radio personality and author, 1921-1989
19 quotes.
Quotes by Earl Nightingale
- A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.
- 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
- Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’
- 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.
- 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.
- Don’t wait for change. You change.
- Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts
- Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.
- Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
- Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
- Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us.
- 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.
- Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
- Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
- 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!
- The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.
- We become what we think about most of the time.
- Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
- People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.