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
You become what you continually think about.
We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get
You are now, and you do become, what you think about.
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
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
Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.
The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.
One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.
We become what we think about.
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.