Quotes from Earl Nightingale

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

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.

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.