Quotes from Earl Nightingale

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

The big thing is that you know what you want.

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.

Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.

Ask yourself every morning, 'how can I increase my service today?'

I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

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.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

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.

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.

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

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals.

It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.

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

We become what we think about.

One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we'll move toward it.

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

Everything begins with an idea.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.