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Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

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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Tiptoe
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Don't wait for change. You change.
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You can control your attitude. Set it each morning.
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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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We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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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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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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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.
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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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How can I be of the greatest service doing that which I most enjoy doing?
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Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.
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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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Every-time we use a product or service, someone is serving us.
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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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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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Excellence always sells.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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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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