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The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

Earl Nightingale

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Earl Nightingale
Age: 68 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 12
Died: 1989
Died: March 25
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Better
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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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You can control your attitude. Set it each morning.
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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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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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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 biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
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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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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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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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Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.
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That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
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Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
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Never compete, create.
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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.
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Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.
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Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service
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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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Goals reflect your choice of destination.
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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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