Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
Earl NightingaleEvery great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
Earl NightingaleCourage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
Earl NightingaleThe person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.
Earl NightingaleSecurity isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
Earl NightingaleYour problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Earl NightingaleA great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.
Earl NightingaleMost people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get
Earl NightingaleGetting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone
Earl NightingaleDo what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
Earl NightingaleSuccessful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.
Earl NightingaleWherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Earl NightingaleIf your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.
Earl NightingaleProblems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
Earl NightingaleDon'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.
Earl NightingaleIf the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
Earl NightingaleThroughout 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
Earl NightingaleThe 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!
Earl NightingaleEverything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.
Earl NightingaleMost people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.
Earl NightingaleIf a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.
Earl NightingaleTime can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them.
Earl NightingaleThe 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.
Earl NightingaleA single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.
Earl NightingaleNever give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl NightingaleHappiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
Earl NightingalePicture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
Earl NightingaleOn Christmas morning, our joy or our happiness can be at a very high level, not because of our anticipation of what we might receive but, rather, in anticipation of watching our loved ones open our gifts to them. In fact, if we're not careful, we can fail to register sufficient excitement and joy upon opening the gifts we receive from others. We must remember that they are happiest at that time and to give them top billing, to stretch their happiness to its full length.
Earl NightingaleFor a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Earl NightingaleSome people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."
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