Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Earl Nightingale

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

- Earl Nightingale

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

- Earl Nightingale

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

- Earl Nightingale

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.

- Earl Nightingale

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

- Earl Nightingale

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

- Earl Nightingale

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

- Earl Nightingale

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

- Earl Nightingale

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

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

- Earl Nightingale

We tend to live up to our expectations.

- Earl Nightingale

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

- Earl Nightingale

The big thing is that you know what you want.

- Earl Nightingale

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

- Earl Nightingale

Everything begins with an idea.

- Earl Nightingale

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

- Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Earl Nightingale