Jack Canfield Quotes - Page 9

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

I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.

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

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.

An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

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

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

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed to teaching and disseminating those around the world. I also believe that most transformational leaders are focusing too much on outer techniques and overlooking the important inner qualities of beingness and presence that are required to create real and lasting transformation in the world.

I think the deepest belief I have . . . is that love really is the answer to all problems.

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!

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

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.

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

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

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

When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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