Earl Nightingale Quotes

• We become what we think about.

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• We are all self made but only the successful will admit it.

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Admit, Made

• Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

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  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Time, Give

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Living, Expression

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem

• You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Idea

• You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

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  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Measurement

• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own “acres of diamonds.”

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acres, Diamonds

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

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  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Danger

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Afraid

• Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

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  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Subconscious, Mind

• What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shows

• 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.

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  Topics in Service

  Tags in Proportion

• We tend to live up to our expectations.

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  Topics in Expectations, Wisdom

  Tags in Ourselves

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Circumstances

• 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.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Journey

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Feeling

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Dominant, Thoughts

• 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!

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Company, Career

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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