Top 180 Earl Nightingale Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Earl Nightingale

52. “What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.”

— Earl Nightingale

53. “Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.”

— Earl Nightingale

54. “All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.”

— Earl Nightingale

55. “Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.”

— Earl Nightingale

56. “Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.”

— Earl Nightingale

57. “Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!”

— Earl Nightingale

58. “People don’t have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.”

— Earl Nightingale

59. “Goals reflect your choice of destination.”

— Earl Nightingale

60. “Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.”

— Earl Nightingale

61. “You are what you think about.”

— Earl Nightingale

62. “Shooting for the top will bring out the best that’s in you.”

— Earl Nightingale

63. “No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.”

— Earl Nightingale

64. “Getting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all – you commit yourself – and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get.”

— Earl Nightingale

65. “We tend to live up to our expectations.”

— Earl Nightingale

66. “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.”

— Earl Nightingale

67. “Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.”

— Earl Nightingale

68. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.”

— Earl Nightingale

69. “Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.”

— Earl Nightingale

70. “It’s never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.”

— Earl Nightingale

71. “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

72. “How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?”

— Earl Nightingale

73. “Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.”

— Earl Nightingale

74. “The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!”

— Earl Nightingale

75. “A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.”

— Earl Nightingale

76. “Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don’t like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don’t necessarily enjoy.”

— Earl Nightingale

77. “You can’t get rich unless you EN-rich.”

— Earl Nightingale

78. “If the grass is greener on the other side it’s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.”

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Earl Nightingale

80. “As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.”

— Earl Nightingale

81. “Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It’s not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.”

— Earl Nightingale

82. “The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That’s the person who says, ‘I’m going to become this’ and then begins to work toward that goal.”

— Earl Nightingale

83. “A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”

— Earl Nightingale

84. “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

85. “The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.”

— Earl Nightingale

86. “Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.”

— Earl Nightingale

87. “You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.”

— Earl Nightingale

88. “Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.”

— Earl Nightingale

89. “Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.”

— Earl Nightingale

90. “To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.”

— Earl Nightingale

91. “To become successful and outstanding at something, we don’t have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.”

— Earl Nightingale

92. “Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.”

— Earl Nightingale

93. “Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.”

— Earl Nightingale

94. “Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.”

— Earl Nightingale

95. “The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.”

— Earl Nightingale

96. “Security isn’t what the wise person looks for; it’s opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.”

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Earl Nightingale

99. “The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.”

— Earl Nightingale

100. “You can control your attitude. Set it each morning.”

— Earl Nightingale