The Strangest Secret Quotes

“You are now, and you do become, what you think about.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“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.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“We’ve got to put the fuel in before we can expect heat. Likewise, we’ve got to be of service first before we can expect money. Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service. Build. Work. Dream. Create. Do this and you’ll find that there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“You are what you think about.”
― Earl Nightingale, The 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, The Strangest Secret

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity.” And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“One, you will become what you think about. Two, remember the word imagination. Let your mind soar. Three, courage. Concentrate on your goal everyday. Four, save 10 percent of what you earn and action. Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Prosperity is founded upon a law of mutual exchange. Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper, in turn, himself. Sometimes the return will not come from those you serve, but it must come to you from someplace, for that is the law.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“as you believe so shall it be done unto you.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Every one of us is the sum total of our own thoughts.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Live this new way and the flood gates of abundance will open and pour over you more riches than you may have dreamed existed. Money, yes, lots of it, but what’s more important you’ll have peace. You’ll be in that wonderful minority who lead calm, cheerful successful lives. Start today. You have nothing to lose. But you have a life to win.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Life should be an exciting adventure. It should never be a bore. A man should live fully, be alive. He should be glad to get out of bed in the morning. He should be doing a job that he likes to do because he does it well. One”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“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.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration. See”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Act as though it were impossible to fail,”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“we can achieve nothing without paying the price.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“The difference is goals. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. It’s that simple. Failures, on the other hand, believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. 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.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“There will come times when you will feel like giving up. It’s easier for a human being to think negatively than positively, that’s why only 5 percent are successful. You must begin now to place yourself in that group.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“The greatest teacher of all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the secret time and time again: “As ye believe, so shall it be done unto you.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“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. It not only will, there’s no way that it cannot.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret