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If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.

Earl Nightingale

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Earl Nightingale
Age: 68 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 12
Died: 1989
Died: March 25
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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 greatest thing on earth is a good idea!
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You must radiate success before it’ll come to you.
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You become what you continually think about.
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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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Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.
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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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What happens inside always appears outside.
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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
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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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Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
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It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.
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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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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.
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The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.
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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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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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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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All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.
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