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We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

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Earl Nightingale
Age: 68 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 12
Died: 1989
Died: March 25
Actor
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Motivational Speaker
Radio Personality
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LA
California
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Expectations
Attitude
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Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
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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.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service
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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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With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.
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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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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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It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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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.
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Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
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Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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