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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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Never Quit.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
There's no place like home.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Think and grow rich.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Never spend your money before you have it.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
All-righty then !
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Every artist was first an amateur.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.