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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Faith can move mountains.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Vegas, baby.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Slow but steady wins the race.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Have you checked the children lately ?
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.