Earl Nightingale quotes - page 2

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts. (Earl Nightingale)
Everything begins with an idea.
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
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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 the change.
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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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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You are now, and you do become, what you think about.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. (Earl Nightingale)
Picture 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.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds."
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Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes.
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We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.
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Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.
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The 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.
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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
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The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
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A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read. (Earl Nightingale)
To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
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Courage changes things for the better . . . With courage you can stay withsomething long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three orfour times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
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Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts.
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Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.
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