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“Never compete, create.”

Quote by Earl Nightingale

Book:This is Earl Nightingale

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This is Earl Nightingale

This comprehensive collection delves into the wisdom of Earl Nightingale, offering readers a blend of motivational and inspirational content aimed at enhancing personal growth and achieving success in various aspects of life. more

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Earl Nightingale

Earl Nightingale was an American author and motivational speaker renowned for his influential work in the field of personal development. Born on December 3, 1921, and passing away on March 25, 1989, Nightingale's teachings emphasized the power of positive thinking and personal responsibility. His most famous work, 'The Strangest Secret', has inspired millions with its message of self-improvement. more

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“About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.”

People Knows Chance Successful Rich Subjects Wind One Day Miles Ships Tides Harbors Port Entrances Drifting Rudders Adrift Coastline

Author:Earl Nightingale

“But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.”

Years Courses Taken Discipline Ocean Lifetime Accomplish Reaching Destination Sail Port Deep Ocean

Author:Earl Nightingale

“There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".”

Said Play Pieces Advice Talent College Dad Guitar My Dad One Piece

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“When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.”

Drunk Shops Bottles Diamond Junk Drunkenness Pawns Pawn Shops

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“If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.”

Ifs Play Waiting Information Miracle Dumb

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“It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.”

Kind Past Peace Numbers Morning Distance Painful Get Up Intensity Recalls

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“A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.”

Thinking Humans Energy Impossible Possibility Saint

Book:Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.”

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Book:Book of Mercy

Source: Book of Mercy