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Success is not the result of making money earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
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We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them our bodies take charge and do them for us.
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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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The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal
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But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
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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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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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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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All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.
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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
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Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.
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Excellence always sells.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
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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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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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It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.
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