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
Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?
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.
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.
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
The big thing is that you know what you want.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
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. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and 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.
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.