Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingale
Earl Nightingalewas an American radio personality, writer, speaker, and author, dealing mostly on the subjects of human character development, motivation, excellence and meaningful existence; so named as the "Dean of Personal Development." He was the voice in the early 1950s of Sky King, the hero of a radio adventure series, and was a WGN radio show host from 1950 to 1956. Nightingale was the author of The Strangest Secret, which economist Terry Savage has called “…One of the great motivational...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth12 March 1921
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Perseverance is another word for faith!
Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ... dream ... create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.
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.
These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.
Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.
A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.
There is no limit on earnings.
Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get