Earl Nightingale Quotes - Page 5

If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.

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. 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.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

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.

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

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.

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.

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.

There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

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.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal

Successful 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.

It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.

Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.

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.

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

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.

How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?