Top 180 Earl Nightingale Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The key that unlocks energy is desire. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.”

— Earl Nightingale

102. “The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!”

— Earl Nightingale

103. “Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.”

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104. “Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you’ll be doing when you’ve reached your goal.”

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105. “Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They’re 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.”

— Earl Nightingale

106. “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.”

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107. “Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.”

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108. “Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.”

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109. “In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.”

— Earl Nightingale

110. “To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.”

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111. “People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be – whether they will admit that or not.”

— Earl Nightingale

112. “The key that unlocks energy is desire.”

— Earl Nightingale

113. “I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”

— Earl Nightingale

114. “If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.”

— Earl Nightingale

115. “With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.”

— Earl Nightingale

116. “Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.”

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117. “You must radiate success before it’ll come to you.”

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118. “One, you will become what you think about. Two, remember the word imagination. Let your mind soar. Three, courage. Concentrate on your goal everyday. Four, save 10 percent of what you earn and action. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.”

— Earl Nightingale

119. “Achievement requires more than a vision – it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality.”

— Earl Nightingale

120. “If you don’t have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.”

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121. “What happens inside always appears outside.”

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122. “The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.”

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123. “Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!”

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124. “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.”

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125. “Successful people are not without problems. They’re simply people who’ve learned to solve their problems.”

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126. “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.”

— Earl Nightingale

127. “Security isn’t what the wise person looks for – it’s opportunity.”

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128. “We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.”

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129. “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

130. “Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.”

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131. “Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.”

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132. “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.”

— Earl Nightingale

133. “If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals.”

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134. “If you’ll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you’ll be astonished at the changes you’ll see.”

— Earl Nightingale

135. “Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get.”

— Earl Nightingale

136. “Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.”

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137. “The difference is goals. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. It’s that simple. Failures, on the other hand, believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances... by things that happen to them... by exterior forces.”

— Earl Nightingale

138. “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

139. “We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can’t be broken.”

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140. “If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.”

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

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142. “Life should be an exciting adventure. It should never be a bore. A man should live fully, be alive. He should be glad to get out of bed in the morning. He should be doing a job that he likes to do because he does it well. One.”

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

— Earl Nightingale

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

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145. “Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration. See.”

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146. “Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind’s eye as having already achieved this goal. See your self doing the things you will be doing when you have reached your goal.”

— Earl Nightingale

147. “You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.”

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148. “Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.”

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149. “These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.”

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150. “There is no limit on earnings.”

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