Jack Canfield Quotes

If you are going to be a winner, you have to acknowledge the truth - it is you who took the actions, thought the thoughts, created the feelings, and made the choices that got you to where you now are. It was you! ~ Jack Canfield

If you don't like your outcomes, change your responses. ~ Jack Canfield

When you think you can't, revisit a previous triumph. ~ Jack Canfield

Don't just sit there (and complain), do something. ~ Jack Canfield

I believe the principles and techniques in this book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, can literally change the world, but more importantly, they can change the quality of your life with your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your co-workers and everyone else you interact with. I cannot recommend it highly enough. ~ Jack Canfield

Mother Teresa was a hero of mine for a long time. I just like the way she took on the world from a very humble place. She has a great quote. When she was leaving her monestary to start Sisters of Charity, she had two pennies. She was asked by a head priest what she could possibly do with two pennies. She said, 'Nothing. But with two pennies and God, I can do anything'. ~ Jack Canfield

Discouraged?
As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-baseline, I asked one of the boys what the score was.
"We're behind 14 to nothing," he answered with a smile.
"Really," I said. "I have to say you don't look very discouraged."
"Discouraged?" the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. "Why should we be discouraged? We haven't been up to bat yet. ~ Jack Canfield

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

You don't know you're going to get a 'No' until you ask, and if you don't ask, you've given yourself the No. ~ Jack Canfield

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. ~ Jack Canfield

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

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us."
That was all.
And that was everything. ~ Jack Canfield

Everything you want also wants you. ~ Jack Canfield

Compassion is the key no matter what the line of work you are in. ~ Jack Canfield

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable. ~ Jack Canfield

WHEN YOU ARE IN CONFLICT WITH SOMEONE, THERE IS ONE FACTOR THAT CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DAMAGING YOUR RELATIONSHIP AND DEEPENING IT. THAT FACTOR IS ATTITUDE. - William James ~ Jack Canfield

Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story tellers; Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is a master thinker. When it comes to systemizing life, no one can touch him. ~ Doug Wead

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results. ~ Jack Canfield

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something. ~ Jack Canfield

Use the power of your conscious & subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve. ~ Jack Canfield

The darkest hour is closest to dawn. ~ Jack Canfield

You don't have the potential to create, you are always creating. ~ Jack Canfield

For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others. ~ Jack Canfield

Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve. ~ Jack Canfield

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat. ~ Jack Canfield

For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, and people report that they get great value from it. Another core genius is compiling and writing books. Along with my co-author Mark Victor Hansen and others, I have written, co-authored, compiled and edited more than 200 books. ~ Jack Canfield

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. ~ Jack Canfield

I teach that people should watch less TV. I don't care what else they're doing! The average American's watching anywhere from three to six hours a day. If you watch six hours of TV a day, that's 15 years of your life! ~ Jack Canfield

If one person tells you you're a horse, they're crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, there's a conspiracy afoot. If 10 people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle." The point is that if several people are telling you the same thing, there is probably some truth in it. ~ Jack Canfield

IT TAKES A LOT OF LIFE EXPERIENCE TO SEE WHY SOME RELATIONSHIPS LAST AND OTHERS DO NOT. BUT WE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR A CRISIS TO GET AN IDEA OF A PARTICULAR RELATIONSHIP. OUR BEHAVIOR IN LITTLE EVERYDAY INCIDENTS TELLS US A GREAT DEAL. - Eknath Easwaran ~ Jack Canfield

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos. ~ Jack Canfield

Failures can happen to anyone - it is how you deal with it that makes the difference. ~ Jack Canfield

A lot of people feel like they're victims in life, and they'll often point to past events, perhaps growing up with an abusive parent or in a dysfunctional family. Most psychologists believe that about 85 percent of families are dysfunctional, so all of a sudden you're not so unique. My parents were alcoholics. My dad abused me. My mother divorced him when I was six ... I mean, that's almost everybody's story in some form or not. The real question is, what are you going to do now? What do you choose now? Because you can either keep focusing on that, or you can focus on what you want. And when people start focusing on what they want, what they don't want falls away, and what they want expands, and the other part disappears. (Jack Canfield) ~ Rhonda Byrne

Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders. ~ Jack Canfield

No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced. ~ Jack Canfield

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain. ~ Jack Canfield

When you have inspired thought, you have to trust it and you have to act on it. ~ Jack Canfield

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

A GOAL THAT IS NOT MEASURABLE IS JUST WISHFUL THINKING. ~ Jack Canfield

Life doesn't just happen to you. It's all about choices and how you respond to every situation. ~ Jack Canfield

I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things. ~ Jack Canfield

What is the why behind everything you do? ~ Jack Canfield

If your dog doesn't like someone, you probably shouldn't either. ~ Jack Canfield

Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences - making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings, or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality. We've all heard the phrase that "the truth will set you free." And it will. The truth allows us to be free to deal with the way things are, not the way we imagine them to be or hope them to be or might manipulate them to be with our lies. The truth also frees up our energy. It takes energy to withhold the truth, keep a secret, or keep up an act. ~ Jack Canfield

Good or bad, habits always deliver results. ~ Jack Canfield

The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom. ~ Jack Canfield

Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT ~ Jack Canfield

Your everyday normal behavior has a lot to do with the results in your life. If you're not happy with these results, something has to change. NOTHING MUCH IN YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE, UNTIL YOU DO! ~ Jack Canfield

What we have to get straight in our heads is that owning the money doesn't mean ANYTHING. "It's the DOING with money that develops us - it's not in the having. And when you have more, you're enabled to DO more." ~ Jack Canfield

By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments. ~ Jack Canfield

THE RESULTS OF YOUR BAD HABITS USUALLY DON'T SHOW UP UNTIL MUCH LATER IN LIFE ~ Jack Canfield

I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard. ~ Jack Canfield

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again. ~ Jack Canfield

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. ~ Jack Canfield

If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully. ~ Jack Canfield

Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!' ~ Jack Canfield

True learning only occurs when you assimilate and apply the new information - when there is a change in your behavior. ~ Jack Canfield

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want. ~ Jack Canfield

You either create or allow everything that happens to you. ~ Jack Canfield

Success is the ability to do what you want, whenever you want, as often as you want. ~ Jack Canfield

Many wonderful things in life do not come wrapped in the packages we think they should. God used a carpenter, not a king, to save the world. ~ Jack Canfield

Since I learned the Secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical, I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of and I live on a day to day basis. ~ Jack Canfield

In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it. ~ Jack Canfield

Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly ... even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you're depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully. ~ Jack Canfield

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way. ~ Jack Canfield

Always keep your mind open to opportunity and it will come calling. ~ Jack Canfield

I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities. ~ Jack Canfield

One of the main strategies of the successful is that they constantly seek guidance from experts in their field. ~ Jack Canfield

Be Willing to Pay the Price If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all. MICHELANGELO Renaissance sculptor and painter who spent 4 years lying on his back painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Behind every great achievement is a story of education, training, practice, discipline, and sacrifice. You have to be willing to pay the price. Maybe that price is pursuing one single activity while putting everything else in your life on hold. Maybe it's investing all of your own personal wealth or savings. Maybe it's the willingness to walk away from the safety of your current situation. But though many things are typically required to reach a successful outcome, the willingness to do what's required adds that extra dimension to the mix that helps you persevere in the face of overwhelming challenges, setbacks, pain, and even personal ~ Jack Canfield

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take. ~ Jack Canfield

When you strike a tuning fork you activate it to send out a particular sound or frequency. Now, in a room filled with tuning forks - only those that are tuned to the exact same frequency will begin to vibrate in response. They will automatically connect and respond to the frequency that matches their own. So the idea here is to tune yourself to resonate at a frequency that is in harmony with what you want to attract. In order to create a positive future, you need to keep your energy, thoughts, and feelings in the positive range. ~ Jack Canfield

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

I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.' ~ Jack Canfield

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. ~ Jack Canfield

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat. ~ Jack Canfield

And then there are stories that reveal the transformation of an ordinary person into an extraordinary one, because he or she had the courage to hope, the determination to think positively, the ability to see the beauty in life, the strength to pick up the pieces and move on and the faith that life is nurturing, if one allows it to be so. ~ Jack Canfield

It's the feeling that really creates the attraction, not just the picture or the thought. A lot of people think, "If I think the positive thoughts, or if I visualize having what I want, that will be enough." But if you're doing that and still not feeling abundant, or feeling loving or joyful, then it doesn't create the power of the attraction. ~ Jack Canfield

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image. ~ Jack Canfield

Law of attraction says: "We'll give you whatever it is you say and focus on." and so if you are complaining about how bad it is, what you're creating is more of how bad it is. ~ Jack Canfield

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

Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want. ~ Jack Canfield

He gives no best who gives most; but he gives most who gives best. ~Arthur Warwick ~ Jack Canfield

Every single cell in your body is affected by every single thought that you have. ~ Jack Canfield

To be truly rich includes not only financial freedom but developing rich, meaningful relationships, enriching your health, and enjoying a rich balance between your career and your personal life. ~ Jack Canfield

I pray for him. It's very difficult to dislike someone for whom you are praying. ~ Jack Canfield

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion. ~ Jack Canfield

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes. ~ Jack Canfield

Simply put, the Law of Attraction states that you will attract into your life whatever you focus on. Whatever you give your energy and attention to will come back to you. So, if you stay focused on the good and positive things in your life, you will automatically attract more good and positive things into your life. ~ Jack Canfield

Don't censor your dreams or vision with practicalities and probabilities. ~ Jack Canfield

One Dad I know uses what I call Post-It Note therapy on his children. He leaves sticky Post-It Notes everywhere ... in their lunch box, inside their shoes, on top of their sandwich before he wraps it up. He once went into his daughter's room, looking for his hammer, and on the back of her bedroom door were every Post-It Note he'd ever given her - over 250 in all with simple messages like 'Great job' ... 'I love you' ... or 'You're special to me.' Do you think that girl knew, without a doubt, that her Dad valued her and loved her? ~ Jack Canfield

To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you. ~ Jack Canfield

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. ~ Jack Canfield

Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest. ~ Jack Canfield

a tree with more fruits bends more. ~ Jack Canfield

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge. ~ Jack Canfield

I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being. ~ Jack Canfield

Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition. ~ Jack Canfield

There's so much information on the internet. But people don't need more information, they need 'aha moments,' they need awareness, they need things that actually shift and change them. ~ Jack Canfield

Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, 'Where's the greater benefit in this event?' ~ Jack Canfield

Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could. ~ Jack Canfield