Earl Nightingale Quotes

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune... Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Education made us what we are.

There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.