Jack Canfield Quotes

Browse 48 quotes from Jack Canfield, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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Don’t censor your dreams or vision with practicalities and probabilities.
If you already know how to make your dream come true, then you’re thinking too small.
Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you.
Vague goals produce vague results.
When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you.
Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.
Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.
You are not given a dream unless you have the capacity to fulfill it.
I pray for him. It’s very difficult to dislike someone for whom you are praying.
Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty.
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.
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.
You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.
I often refer to worrying as negative goal-setting. You’re creating pictures in your mind of what you don’t want.
When you think you can’t, revisit a previous triumph.
Believing in yourself is a choice. It’s an attitude you develop over time.
There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.
If you don’t like your outcomes, change your responses.
Repeating an affirmation several times a day keeps you focused on your goal, strengthens your motivation, and programs your subconscious by sending an order to your crew to do whatever it takes to make that goal happen.
If you give your mind a $10,000 problem, it will come up with a $10,000 solution. If you give your mind a $1 million problem, it will come up with a $1 million solution.
If you spend too much time working on your weaknesses, all you end up with is a lot of strong weaknesses!
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Don’t worry about failures; worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT.
Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn’t want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you’ll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don’t let it keep you from doing important tasks.
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.
If someone is hostile in the delivery of their feedback, remember that it is an expression of their level of fear, not your level of incompetence or unlovability.
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
You can’t change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
To achieve major success in life, you must accept 100% responsibility for your life and results. Nothing less will do.
Envision the future you desire. Create the life of your dreams. See it, feel it, believe it.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
The more you create the vibration—the mental and emotional states—of already having something, the faster you attract it to you.
Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve it.
You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.
The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.
Manifestation is not just about wishing for something; it requires taking inspired action.
The world doesn’t pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.
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.
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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
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.
To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.
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 greatest contribution you can make to the world is to grow in self-awareness, self-realization, and the power to manifest your own heartfelt dreams and desires.
You don’t tithe because you want to get something. You tithe because you’ve already gotten it.
If you don’t put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won’t receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you.

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