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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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Earl Nightingale
Age: 68 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 12
Died: 1989
Died: March 25
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Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.
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The key that unlocks energy is desire.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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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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Don't wait for change. You change.
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When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
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If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.
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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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Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.
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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
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Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.
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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
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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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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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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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All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.
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