Earl Nightingale
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
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.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
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.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
You become what you think about.
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.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
You become what you think about.
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Follow your dreams.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
After your jump, the net appears.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Ideas... they have the power
After all, tomorrow is another day !
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Bond. James Bond.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
The road to success is always under construction.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
They're called boobs, Ed.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
I am your father.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Never stop dreaming.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Love those who love you.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
We have not yet begun to fight.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Kind words conquer.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
You only get out what you put in.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.