Earl Nightingale “We tend to live up to our expectations.” -Earl Nightingale “We tend to live up to our expectations.” -Earl Nightingale Related Quotes “Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.” -Earl Nightingale “It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.” -Earl Nightingale “When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” -Steve Jobs “When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader.” -Steve Jobs “One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say, ‘My memory isn’t what it used to be …’ you are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.” -Deepak Chopra “Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.” -Earl Nightingale “Live this new way and the flood gates of abundance will open and pour over you more riches than you may have dreamed existed. Money, yes, lots of it, but what’s more important you’ll have peace. You’ll be in that wonderful minority who lead calm, cheerful successful lives. Start today. You have nothing to lose. But you have a life to win.” -Earl Nightingale “If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.” -Earl Nightingale “I’m grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.” -Earl Nightingale “But most people live a life of quiet mediocrity and never achieve the success they truly desire because they get impatient. They want easy success or none at all. They see the path to success as a frustration, an impediment. Each day spent short of the ultimate goal is viewed as a time of failure and as an annoyance. As such, they get distracted by hundreds of little things that each day try to get us off our course. Yet the successful among us know the truth.” -Earl Nightingale