Jack Canfield Quotes

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

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

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

One way to kill an opportunity is to avoid taking it.

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.

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."

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.

Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

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

If it ain't fun don't do it.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

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

Repetition is the key to real learning.

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.

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.

One of the things I tell people in my seminars is to hang out with positive, nurturing people. You become like who you hang out with.

No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.

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.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

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.

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

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.

Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.

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

What is the why behind everything you do?

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.

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

The principles always work if you work the principles.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

Your habits determine your outcomes.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

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

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

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.

The Law of Attraction allows for infinite possibilities, infinite abundance & infinite joy. It knows no order of difficulty.

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

Remember, what you continually talk about, comes about.

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.

Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.

Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

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.