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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotations by Earl Nightingale

Earl Nightingale (American Motivational Speaker)

Earl Nightingale (1921–89) was an American motivational speaker and author, known as the “Dean of Personal Development.” He was the voice in the early 1950s of Sky King, the hero of a radio adventure series, and was a WGN radio show host from 1950 to 1956. Nightingale was the author of the Strangest Secret, which economist Terry Savage has called “?One of the great motivational books of all time”.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

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!
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Work

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Service

The big thing is that you know what you want.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Goals

To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
—Earl Nightingale

Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Fear

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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Ideas

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and 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 Nightingale
Topics: Wealth, Riches

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Strength

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Success & Failure, Success, Luck

A 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 we changed.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Attitude

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.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Perseverance, Action

When you judge others,
you do not define them, you define yourself.
—Earl Nightingale

You become what you think about.
—Earl Nightingale

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Reality

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Planning

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Opportunity

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Attitude

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Planning

All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
—Earl Nightingale
Topics: Goals

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.
—Earl Nightingale

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