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A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

Earl Nightingale

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Earl Nightingale
Age: 68 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 12
Died: 1989
Died: March 25
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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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Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.
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Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.
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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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Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]
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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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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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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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Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about
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As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.
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Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.
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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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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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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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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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