Selected Quotes By Earl Nightingale
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity."
Earl Nightingale, Courage
"Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all."
Earl Nightingale, Problems
"The big thing is that you know what you want."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."
Earl Nightingale, Opportunities
"Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about."
Earl Nightingale, Work
"There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time."
Earl Nightingale, Work
"Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work."
Earl Nightingale, Work
"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."
Earl Nightingale, Opportunities
"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
Earl Nightingale, Intelligence/Wisdom
"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."
Earl Nightingale, Ideas
"Everything begins with an idea."
Earl Nightingale, Ideas
"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."
Earl Nightingale, Success
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
Earl Nightingale, Time
"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."