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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

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Earl Nightingale
Age: 68 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 12
Died: 1989
Died: March 25
Actor
Author
Motivational Speaker
Radio Personality
Writer
LA
California
Environment
Attitudes
Inspirational
Surroundings
Live
Karma
Work
Mirror
World
Mirrors
Environmental
Expectations
Attitude

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Don't wait for change. You change.
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Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.
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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.
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Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
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Now, success is not the result of making money making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.
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Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.
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If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.
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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.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.
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The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.
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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.
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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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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
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Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.
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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.
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It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.
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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.
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