Quotes by Earl Nightingale

“We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.”

“Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.”

“Excellence always sells”

“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep.”

“Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. Theyre 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.”

“We tend to live up to our expectations.”

“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.”

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”

“Youll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea”

“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.”

“You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.”

“You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.”

“Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.”

“Our first journey is to find that special place for us.”

“Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.”

“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.”

“The big thing is that you know what you want.”

“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.”

“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.”

“What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it”