Earl Nightingale
Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them.Collection: Writing
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 realityCollection: Reality
Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.Collection: Opposites
We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.Collection: Inspirational
We become what we think about.Collection: Inspirational
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. Don't try to do tomorrow's or next week's work today. It's not the number of things you do, but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that count. To achieve this "habit of success," you need only to focus on the most important tasks and succeed in each small task of each day.Collection: Successful
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.Collection: Years
Perseverance is another word for faith!Collection: Perseverance
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.Collection: Success
The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!Collection: Ideas
Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could getCollection: Thinking
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]Collection: Gratitude
About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.Collection: Successful
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.Collection: Attitude
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.Collection: Attitude
Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.Collection: Adversity
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.Collection: Basketball
Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.Collection: Waiting
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.Collection: Friendship
Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."Collection: Reading
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.Collection: Wise
Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.Collection: Use
Most people begin their day in neutral. They will simply react to whatever confronts them.Collection: People
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.Collection: Motivation
You can't get rich unless you EN-rich.Collection: Rich
There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.Collection: Laughter
Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.Collection: Compassion
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.Collection: Pay The Price
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.Collection: Dream
Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.Collection: Mistake
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Happiness
If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.Collection: Successful
It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.Collection: Motivational
To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Men
Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your # career !Collection: Jobs
The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.Collection: Jobs
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Rewards
Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughtsCollection: Strangest Secret
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.Collection: Real
Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Collection: Change
Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.Collection: Night
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!Collection: Giving Up
Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!Collection: Choices
You must radiate success before it’ll come to you.Collection: Embodiment
A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.Collection: Ruts