Earl Nightingale

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.

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

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.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

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.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

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

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be whether they will admit that or not.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

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!

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.