Earl Nightingale Quotes

With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.

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.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

Shooting for the top will bring out the best that’s in you.

You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.

Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success – and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you’re successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you’re successful.

Don’t catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.