The Strangest Secret

by Earl Nightingale

We, in America, are particularly fortunate to live in the richest land that ever existed on the face of the earth. A land of abundant opportunity for everyone,

the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardness, it is conformity.

Yes!!!

I’ll tell you who the successful people are. A success is the school teacher who is teaching school because that’s what she wanted to do.

The success is the woman who is a wife and mother because she wanted to become a wife and mother

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

Here’s the key to success and the key to failure: We become what we think about.

things that are given to us for nothing, we place little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value. The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free: our mind, our soul, our body, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends. All these priceless possessions are free, but the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time.

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Life should be an exciting adventure. It should never be a bore.

keep calm and cheerful -- calm and cheerful. Don’t let petty things annoy you

If you sow negative thoughts your life will be filled with negative things. If you sow positive thoughts, your life will be cheerful, successful and positive.

Success is not the result of making money. Making money is the result of success and success is in direct proposition to our service.

1) Set yourself a definite goal. 2) Quit running yourself down. 3) Stop thinking of all the reasons why you can’t be successful and instead, think of all the reasons why you can. 4) Trace your attitudes back to your childhood and try to discover where you first got the idea you couldn’t be a success, if that’s the way you’ve been thinking. 5) Change the image you have of yourself by writing out a description of the person you would like to be. 6) Act the part of the successful person you have decided to become.

Make sure that the time there with you is a high spot in their day and that they’ll want to come back, not just because of your company but because of you.

nothing has yet been done perfectly? Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

There isn’t, in all the world, a perfectly managed business, organization, institution, or government. The greatest picture hasn’t yet been painted.

if you want to spur your mind into new action, think combination, association, adaptation, substitution, magnification, mini-fication, and rearrangement.