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
Earl Nightingale quotes about
Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.
That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.
Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!
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.
The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.