Earl Nightingale Quotes From The Strangest Secret and Other Sources
"You become what you think about."
As the most famous of Earl Nightingale quotes from the 'Strangest Secret', this is repeated often in articles on the Law of Attraction and self help courses.
Earl Nightingale was a poor child during the Depression and his father
left when he was 12. Earl had a great curiosity and thirst for
knowledge and desire to better himself. This aspiration eventually led
him to become one of the world's foremost experts on success and what
makes people successful.
As a Marine in 1941 Earl was one of the few survivors aboard the
battleship Arizona when it was attacked in Pearl Harbour. He started
his career in radio with the Marines as a volunteer announcer at a
local radio station.
After the War, Earl hosted his own daily commentary program on WGN,
where he was paid commission on his own advertising sales. By 1957 at
the age of 35, he was so successful that he decided to retire. He had
also bought his own insurance company and worked tirelessly motivating
his sales force to greater accomplishments. At one point Earl was about
to go away on a long holiday and his sales manager begged him to record
some inspirational words for his staff. And so the recording "The
Strangest Secret" was created - this later became the first spoken-word
record to sell over a million copies and thus win a 'Gold Record'.
In 1960 Earl paired up with businessman Lloyd Conant and together they formed Nightingale-Conant Corporation, which became a multi-million dollar giant in the self-improvement field.
When Earl Nightingale died on March 28, 1989, Paul Harvey broke the
news to
the country on his radio program with the words, "The sonorous voice of
the nightingale was stilled." In the words of his good friend and
commercial announcer, Steve King, "Earl Nightingale never let a day go
by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to
others. It was his consuming passion."
A special Earl Nightingale Quote:
"We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and rule our
lives from within."
Your Top Ten Earl Nightingale Quotes:
"Excellence always sells" - Earl Nightingale
Also see: Inspirational Quotes
"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
Also see: Inspirational Quotes
"The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts" - Earl Nightingale
"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us" - Earl Nightingale
"What's going on in the inside shows on the outside" - Earl Nightingale
"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that." - Earl Nightingale
Also see: Motivational Quotes
"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within." - Earl Nightingale
"Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn" - Earl Nightingale
"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations" - Earl Nightingale