厄尔·南丁格尔出生于20世纪30年代经济大萧条时期。他小时候因为家里非常穷困，厄尔急切得想知道，为什么一些人长大后能够享有富有，而别的家庭象他家里一样一贫如洗，勉强能维持生计而已。那时候他不能从大人那里得到问题的答案，厄尔开始尽可能多读书，坚信他能在某个地方，在某个人那里找到答案。

能成功的人是持续不断地实现一个有价值理想的人。那些人能对自己说：我想成为那样的人，然后开始朝着那个目标前进。有目标的人他们能够成功，因为他们知道他们该往哪里走。

“Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.”– Earl Nightingale, Motivational Speaker

进入一个让你深感兴趣的行业，让你喜欢一天工作12到15小时的事，并在剩余时间想着它。– 厄尔‧南丁格尔 (励志演说家)

1.Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

2.Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

3.Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

4.Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

5.Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

6.The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

7.We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

8.Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

9.Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

10.A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

11.We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

12.The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

13.Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

14.Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

15.All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.