Earl Nightingale Quotes

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.

Make no mistake about it: nobody gives you nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get what you want.

If we wanted something, we had to earn it.

People shouldn't think that something is their birthright. They need to prove themselves.

Life responds to deserve and not to need.

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

You work for whatever you get in life.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

My parents taught me that in life, you get out what you put in.

I think we've been the selection just because I think I've earned it by doing a lot of things for the district.

I don't think anybody deserves anything than what they already have because I believe everyone gets what they deserve.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

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

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.