Earl Nightingale Quotes

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

Attitude creates your world and designs your destiny.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

If you say you can or if you say you can't... you're right.

I'm not going to see anybody else in the mirror. That's how I live, day by day. When I look in the mirror, it's up to me to accomplish everything I want out of life.