It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.
Earl NightingaleIdeas 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.
Earl NightingaleReal evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
Earl NightingaleIf you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
Earl NightingaleMoney is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.
Earl NightingaleWe are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
Earl NightingaleStrange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.
Earl NightingaleYou can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
Earl NightingaleSuccessful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
Earl NightingaleYour world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.
Earl NightingaleThe 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.
Earl NightingaleFind what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.
Earl NightingaleWithout 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.
Earl NightingaleDon't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.
Earl NightingaleIf you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.
Earl NightingaleWe tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire
Earl NightingaleTo acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
Earl NightingaleNow, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.
Earl NightingaleVisualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.
Earl NightingaleThere are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.
Earl NightingaleWhatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.
Earl NightingaleIf honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.
Earl NightingaleMost very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.
Earl NightingaleIf the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.
Earl NightingaleGetting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all - you commit yourself - and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get.
Earl NightingaleTo become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.
Earl NightingaleWhatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl NightingaleA 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.
Earl NightingalePeople are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Earl NightingaleWe all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]
Earl NightingaleIt is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
Earl NightingaleOur environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.
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