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
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
People can and do change.
People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.
Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
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.
Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get
Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire
Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.