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
Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.
Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.
The big thing is that you know what you want.
Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.
Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!
But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.
Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.
What happens inside always appears outside.
Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
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.
You can control your attitude. Set it each morning.
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals.