Earl Nightingale was an American radio speaker and author, best known as the voice behind the 1950s radio program The Strangest Secret. He is credited with creating the first spoken-word recordings to sell in the hundreds of thousands. He is also considered to be the first self-help author and motivational speaker, inspiring millions of people with his message of success and personal development. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Earl Nightingale on success, inspiring, motivational.
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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.
We become what we think about.
Earl Nightingale Quotes About Success
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
A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude. — Earl Nightingale
We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it. — Earl Nightingale
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. — Earl Nightingale
We must be the epitome - the embodiment - of success. 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
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
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning. — Earl Nightingale
If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master. — Earl Nightingale
People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes. — Earl Nightingale
You must radiate success before it’ll come to you. — Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale Quotes About Inspiring
Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity. — Earl Nightingale
To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal. — 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
Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness. — Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale Quotes About Motivational
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. — Earl Nightingale
Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your # career ! — 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
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated? — Earl Nightingale
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes! — Earl Nightingale
If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals. — 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
Earl Nightingale Quotes About Life
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
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
Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared? — Earl Nightingale
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. — 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
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
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
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
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
Earl Nightingale Quotes About Goal
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
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
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. — 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
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. — 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
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
All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself. — Earl Nightingale
The big thing is that you know what you want. — Earl Nightingale
If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure. — Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale Quotes About Opportunity
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together. — 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
Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. — Earl Nightingale
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds. — 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
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity. — Earl Nightingale
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. — Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale Quotes About Attitude
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
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about — 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
If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results. — Earl Nightingale
Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself. — Earl Nightingale
Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others. — 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
Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude. — Earl Nightingale
You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse. — Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale Quotes About People
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
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
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
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. — 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
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
Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death. — Earl Nightingale
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime. — 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
People can and do change. — Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale Famous Quotes And Sayings
Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. — Earl Nightingale
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. — 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
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all. — 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 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
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
Excellence always sells. — Earl Nightingale
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts — Earl Nightingale
Our first journey is to find that special place for us. — Earl Nightingale
If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less. — Earl Nightingale
We tend to live up to our expectations. — 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
Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces. — Earl Nightingale
The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about. — Earl Nightingale
We've got to be of service first before we can expect money. — 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
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. — Earl Nightingale
Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. — 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
To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself. — Earl Nightingale
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. — Earl Nightingale
Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might. — 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
Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them. — Earl Nightingale
The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off. — Earl Nightingale
By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist. — Earl Nightingale
Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us. — Earl Nightingale
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. — 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
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
Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others. — Earl Nightingale
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort. — Earl Nightingale
If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich. — Earl Nightingale
You can't get rich unless you EN-rich. — 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
Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control. — Earl Nightingale
You are now, and you do become, what you think about. — 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
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service. — Earl Nightingale
Life Lessons by Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale taught that success is achieved through hard work and dedication, and that it is important to take action in order to reach one's goals.
He also emphasized the importance of having a positive attitude and the power of visualization to help manifest one's dreams.
Lastly, Earl Nightingale taught that it is essential to maintain a strong sense of self-discipline and focus to stay on track and achieve success.
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