Earl Nightingale Quotes

• We become what we think about.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Uncategorized

• We tend to live up to our expectations.

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  Topics in Expectations, Wisdom

  Tags in Ourselves
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  We are all self made but only the successful will admit it.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Admit, Made

• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Attitude, Expectations

  Tags in Ourselves

• 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

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Journey

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Company, Career

• People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Reaction

• 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

  Topics in Family, Future

  Tags in Happy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personal, Interest

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elusive, Ideas

• 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

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Opportunities

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Executive

• Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Ourselves

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

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Advise, Yourself

• Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Prosperity

• Everything begins with an idea.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Beginning

• Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Happy

• Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, World

• Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

  Earl Nightingale

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creativity, Enthusiasm

Earl Nightingale (42)

Birth:	12th March, 1921
Death:	28th March, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Entertainer

About

Earl Nightingale was an American motivational speaker and author, known as the "Dean of Personal Development." He was the voice in the early 1950s of Sky King, the hero of a radio adventure series, and was a WGN radio show host from 1950 to 1956. Nightingale was the author of the Strangest Secret, which economist Terry Savage has called “…One of the great motivational books of all time“.

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