Earl Nightingale

Entertainer

1921-03-12

Quotes by Earl Nightingale

• Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.

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• We tend to live up to our expectations.

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• Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.

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• We tend to live up to our expectations.

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• 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.

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

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• The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

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

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• Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

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• Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

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• You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

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