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

Earl Nightingale

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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
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Risk
Opportunity
Yardstick
Inspirational
Yardsticks
Together
Measures
Motivated
Measure
Dare

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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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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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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 reality
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Don't wait for change. You change.
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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.
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If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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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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The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.
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Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone
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Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.
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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.
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Never compete, create.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.
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What happens inside always appears outside.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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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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