If you don’t have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
EARL NIGHTINGALEOur environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
More Earl Nightingale Quotes
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We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
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That’s the secret: be interesting. If you can’t be interesting, shut up. There’s nothing wrong with silence.
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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
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Getting 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
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Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
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One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.
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Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?
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We 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.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.
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Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
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If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.
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Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.
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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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Time 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.
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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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The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.
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Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!
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Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.
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Shooting for the top will bring out the best that’s in you.
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Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get.
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Visualization is the human being’s vehicle to the future – good, bad, or indifferent. It’s strictly in our control.
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You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.
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We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.
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Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
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