Earl Nightingale Quotes

We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.

I don't believe in handouts, I believe in working hard for what you want.

I have worked for everything. I am self-made and proud of it.

I am happy with the way things are turning out for me because it is only my hard work and no one else's push.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.

I see myself as the product of hard work.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.

I never want anyone to think I've been given a helping hand. I've always worked for everything, whether it be on the football field or away from it.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.