Jack Canfield is an American author, and motivational speaker. He is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 40 languages.
Born: August 19, 1944
Awards: Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Book
Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don’t walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right
You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.
Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you’re already a success.
There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.
What others think about you is none of your business.
There are essentially two things that will make you wise — the books you read and the people you meet.
Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.
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.
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.
I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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.
Carry your most important goal in your wallet.
You can’t change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
Living each day as if it were your last doesn’t mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.
You can’t heal what you don’t acknowledge.
I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
Life is simply a connect-the-dots game, and all the dots have already been identified and organized by somebody else. All you have to do is follow the blueprint, use the system, or work the program that they provide.
Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favour.
Your habits determine your outcomes.
Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.
The principles always work if you work the principles.
The day you change your responses is the day your life will begin to get better.
If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.
Don’t waste your life believing you can’t.
You become like the people you spend the most time with.
