Top 100 Canfield Quotes
#1. I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
Jack Canfield
#2. One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
Jack Canfield
#3. Life doesn't just happen to you. It's all about choices and how you respond to every situation.
Jack Canfield
#4. The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.
Jack Canfield
#5. 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.
Jack Canfield
#6. 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
#7. Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.
Jack Canfield
#8. 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
#9. It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.
Jack Canfield
#10. Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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#11. 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
#12. I like Dr. Daniel Amen's 18/40/60 Rule: When you're 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you're 40, you don't give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you're 60, you realize nobody's been thinking about you at all.
Jack Canfield
#13. Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
Jack Canfield
#14. Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what's out of your control.
Jack Canfield
#15. If your dog doesn't like someone, you probably shouldn't either.
Jack Canfield
#16. Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
Jack Canfield
#17. How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the nay-sayer to life," he thought
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#18. One way to kill an opportunity is to avoid taking it.
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#19. You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.
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#20. When you're connected to a source and to each other through conversation, through making love, through meditation, playing games with your kids, all that stuff, then your self-esteem's going to go up.
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#21. Embrace Change Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. JOHN F. KENNEDY Thirty-fifth president of the United States
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#25. 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
#26. Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.
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#27. Pay attention to how you are feeling, and keep your compass heading set for JOY!
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#29. The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.
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#30. 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.
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#31. You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
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#32. The truth is that our wellbeing is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!
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#33. Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT
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#34. Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.
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#35. Failures can happen to anyone - it is how you deal with it that makes the difference.
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#37. Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, said, There are three keys to success: 1. Being at the right place at the right time. 2. Knowing you are there. 3. Taking action.
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#38. I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.
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#39. 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.
Jack Canfield
#40. Remuneration, promotion and perks - everything falls into place if you enjoy your work.
Jack Canfield
#41. Rick decided to publish it himself. To promote the book, he took a booth at a regional
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#42. Every single cell in your body is affected by every single thought that you have.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#45. 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
#46. A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
Cass Canfield
#47. If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life.
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#48. blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
Jack Canfield
#49. What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#50. The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.
Jack Canfield
#51. 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
#52. Don't censor your dreams or vision with practicalities and probabilities.
Jack Canfield
#53. He gives no best who gives most; but he gives most who gives best. ~Arthur Warwick
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#54. They love us, heal us, teach us, make us laugh and sometimes break our hearts with their passing.
Jack Canfield
#55. Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#56. On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#58. 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.
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#59. Every action you take has consequences. Bad habits (negative behavior) produce negative consequences. Successful habits (positive behavior) produce benefits and rewards.
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#62. People who don't have goals work for people who do.
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#63. Everything is energy. All matter is energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It is the cause and affect of itself. It is evenly present in all places, at all times. Energy is in constant motion and never rests. It is forever moving from one form to another. Energy follows thought.
Jack Canfield
#64. 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.
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#65. We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction.
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#66. If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
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#68. When you have inspired thought, you have to trust it and you have to act on it.
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#69. 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.
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#70. Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
Jack Canfield
#71. Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.
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#72. You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.
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#73. Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#75. The most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#76. Success is the ability to do what you want, whenever you want, as often as you want.
Jack Canfield
#77. 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
#78. Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.
Jack Canfield
#79. If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#80. When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.
Jack Canfield
#81. The Law of Attraction allows for infinite possibilities, infinite abundance & infinite joy. It knows no order of difficulty.
Jack Canfield
#82. Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
Jack Canfield
#83. Perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#84. It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
Jack Canfield
#85. A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
Jack Canfield
#86. Don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#87. 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
#89. One of the things that may get in the way of people ... is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.
Jack Canfield
#90. You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.
Jack Canfield
#91. It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference.
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#92. If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.
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#94. 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.
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#95. You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.
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#97. People may ignore your conviction but they will take notice of the results.
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#99. 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
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#100. If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.
Jack Canfield