Earl Nightingale Famous Quotes
"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."
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
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.
"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."
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale Quotations
"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."
G K Chesterton
"To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon."
Chinese Proverb
"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."
John Ruskin
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beecher
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
"Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)"
Horace
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph."
Shirley Temple
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
Martin Luther King Jr
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Norman Mailer
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis