Strangest Secret Quotes:

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Strangest Secret

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

topic: Firsts, Strangest Secret

Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Waiting, Make You Happy, Strangest Secret

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.13, Lulu.com

topic: Home, Strangest Secret, Ifs

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Secret, About Success, Strangest Secret

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Eye, Goal, Mind, Strangest Secret

You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

- William James

source: William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.108, Nuvision Pubns

topic: Memories, Eye, Passion, Strangest Secret, Erudition

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.84, Lulu.com

topic: Life, Success, Business, Strangest Secret, Taking Charge

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Stay Strong, Perseverance, Lonely, Just Give Up, Don't Ever Give Up

All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Goal, Care, Take Care, Strangest Secret

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Karma, Attitude, Strangest Secret, World Environment

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.156, Lulu.com

topic: Moving, Night, Mind, Strangest Secret, Dominant

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Travel, Journey And Destination, Strangest Secret

If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

- Florence Scovel Shinn

topic: Believe, Strangest Secret

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Life, Positive, Family, Strangest Secret, Cherish Every Moment

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!

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Motivational, Positive, Jobs, Strangest Secret, Motivational Career

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Working So Hard, Just Give Up

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Dream, Strangest Secret

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.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2012). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Thinking, Years, Mind, Strangest Secret, Today And Tomorrow

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Patience, Hope, Men, Strangest Secret

We become what we think about most.

- John H. Vandenberg

topic: Thinking, About Success, Strangest Secret, Motivational Keep Going, Daily Motivation

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Winning, Inspiring Sales

Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Goal, Answers, Too Much, Strangest Secret

Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Believe, Force, Circumstances, Strangest Secret

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Night, Worthwhile, Strangest Secret, Worthwhile Things

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.8, Lulu.com

topic: Stars, Bridges, Goal, Strangest Secret, Bridging The Gap

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.16

topic: Jesus Christ, Answers To Prayer, God Answers Prayers, Strangest Secret, Personal Revelation

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.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Perseverance, Just Give Up, Just Stay Strong

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

- Earl Nightingale

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.40, Lulu.com

topic: Inspiration, Opportunity, Acres, Strangest Secret

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

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Wise, Teacher, Attitude, Strangest Secret

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Creativity, Law Of Attraction, Enthusiasm, Strangest Secret, Energy And Enthusiasm

You become what you think about most of the time.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Positive Thinking, Thinking, Strangest Secret, Positive Affirmations

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.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Pay The Price, Dawn, Experts, Strangest Secret

You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Thinking, Strangest Secret

Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going.

- Joe Namath

topic: Want, Strangest Secret

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.21, Lulu.com

topic: Men, Rich, Get Rich, Strangest Secret

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.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Believe, Successful, Law, Strangest Secret, Earning Money

Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Reality, Goal, Achievement, Strangest Secret

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Strangest Secret

The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Thinking, Secret, World, Strangest Secret

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Faith, Passion, Inspirational Passion, Strangest Secret

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

topic: Persistence, Have Faith, Persistent, Strangest Secret

The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. 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. All these priceless possessions are free. But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.13, Lulu.com

topic: Dream, Country, Children, Strangest Secret

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Great Attitude, Great Positive Attitude

The big thing is that you know what you want.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Night, Want, Bigs, Strangest Secret

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Motivational, Success, Congratulations, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

- Earl Nightingale

source: Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.60, Lulu.com

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Reality, Strangest Secret, Self Help

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

- Rollo May

topic: Courage, Soulmate, Self Esteem, Conformist, Strangest Secret