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.
EARL NIGHTINGALEHow can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?
More Earl Nightingale Quotes
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Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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Goals reflect your choice of destination.
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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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Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.
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Don’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.
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If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
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Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’
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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
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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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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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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 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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Watch what everyone else does–do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.
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Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.
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Everything 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.
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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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A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that’s what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.
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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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What happens inside always appears outside.
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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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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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Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
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Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
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Security isn’t what the wise person looks for – it’s opportunity.
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