How you see the future is much more important than what happened in your past.
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
I believe it’s important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
Thinking expansively includes seeing what is possible and making it happen.
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.
You never fail until you stop trying.
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
The future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. The future belongs to the people who follow their heart, no matter what the critics say, because they truly believe in their vision.
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
You’ll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of Are makes a small amount of heat.
Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
