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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.

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
Successful
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Persons
Predetermined
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Life
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Failure

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Getting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all - you commit yourself - and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get.
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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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One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.
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What happens inside always appears outside.
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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.
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The key that unlocks energy is desire.
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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
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These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.
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The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.
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You must radiate success before it’ll come to you.
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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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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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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
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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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A great attitude is not the result of success success is the result of a great attitude.
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The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!
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