Quotes from Earl Nightingale

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

we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can achieve, and yet, for an equally strange reason, we think others can do things that we cannot. I want you to know that that is not true. You do have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you and you can have the things you want.

A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal, because that's what he or she decided to do …

If he wants more, he must be of more service to those from whom he receives his return.

DAY ACTION IDEAS FOR PUTTING THE STRANGEST SECRET TO WORK FOR YOU

George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

We live by faith or we do not live at all. Either we venture or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith, simply because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. We risk marriage on faith or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or we give up before we start. By faith, we move mountains of opposition or we're stopped by molehills.

Destructive emotions, such as anger, hatred, and jealousy don't hurt others; they hurt you. They can make your life miserable. They can make you sick. Forgive everyone who ever hurt you—really forgive them—and then forgive yourself. That's all past.

achieve the success they truly desire because they get impatient. They want easy success or none at all. They see the path to success as a frustration, an impediment. Each day spent short of the ultimate goal is viewed as a time of failure and as an annoyance. As such, they get distracted by hundreds of little things that each day try to get us off our course. Yet the successful among us know the truth:

The two biggest things you can do to change your future are the books you read and the people you associate with.

A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do.

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal.

There are millions of human beings who live narrow, darkened, frustrated lives—who live defensively—simply because they take a defensive, doubtful attitude toward themselves and, as a result, toward life in general. A person with a poor attitude becomes a magnet for unpleasant experiences. When those experiences come—as they must, because of his attitude—they tend to reinforce his poor attitude, thereby bringing more problems, and so on.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.

Dr. Frankl also wrote, "Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of." Even if it only comes true in the imagination, we must experience the tortures of that which we fear—tortures that are, as often as not, worse than those that might actually come to pass in our lives. It's why the old line "A coward dies a thousand deaths; a brave man dies but once" is really true.

They do not know that by thinking in new directions (which has been called the definition of genius) they can bring new directions into their lives. Most of them are marking time, as if they have a non-cancelable contract with life. How can we rise above our more egregious mistakes if we just mark time! Let's do it better than it's been done before. Let's find our partner in the freest, richest land on earth and do something wonderful with this holiday we've been mysteriously granted.

Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity, and opportunity is there all the time.

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.

Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: "A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

The greatest teacher of all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the secret time and time again: "As ye believe, so shall it be done unto you.

worth any price. You will become what you think about. Remember the word "imagination," and let your mind begin to soar. Courage—concentrate on your goal every day. Save 10 percent of what you earn. Action—ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

Don't concern yourself with the money. Be of service. Build, work, dream, create. Do this, and you'll find there's no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.

But much more important than that, only one in "I don't know how many thousands" will take a large notepad, write the problem at the top of the page, and then deliberately turn on his thinking apparatus.

Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you've reached your goal.