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Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

Earl Nightingale

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Earl Nightingale
Age: 68 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 12
Died: 1989
Died: March 25
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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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A great attitude is not the result of success success is the result of a great attitude.
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Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
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Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
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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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Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.
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You become what you continually think about.
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
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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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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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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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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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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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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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The key that unlocks energy is desire.
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We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.
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Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.
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How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?
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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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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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