Jack Canfield Quotes

What have you done for YOURSELF this year to create a better life?

If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.

Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth.

Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on, think about, read about, and talk about intensely, you’re going to attract more of into your life.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.

The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.

Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.

Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.

The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

If you already know how to make your dream come true, then you're thinking too small.

If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

Remember, there is no perfect time for anything. There is only now.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

The Law of Attraction states that you will attract to you those things that match your state of being. If you focus on having gratitude for what you do have, you will feel rich, and you will attract more abundance into your life. If you focus on what you don't have, you will send out a message of lack and you will attract more lack into your life.

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love

Don't waste your life believing you can't.

If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

Don't kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.

Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!

What is the why behind everything you do?

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully.

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.

The best way to establish rapport with people and to win them over to your side is to be truly interested in them, to listen with the intention of really learning about them. When the person feels that you are really interested in getting to know them and their feelings, they will open up to you and share their true feelings with you much more quickly.

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."

I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could solve the major problems of your life.. make you wealthier, solve a health problem, whatever it might be.

Pay attention to how you are feeling, and keep your compass heading set for JOY!

Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.

The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

Remember, it's more mentally tiring to think about what has to be done, and all the things that might go wrong, than it is to physically do the job.