Top 270 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Canfield - Page 2

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.

Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth.

The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.

Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communicated back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!

Remember, there is no perfect time for anything. There is only now.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

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.

Your habits determine your outcomes.

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly...even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you're depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully.

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

The best way to establish rapport with people and to win them over to your side is to be truly interested in them, to listen with the intention of really learning about them. When the person feels that you are really interested in getting to know them and their feelings, they will open up to you and share their true feelings with you much more quickly.

It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.

If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.

Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

When you think you can't, revisit a previous triumph.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

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.

You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.

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.

If you don't like your outcomes, change your responses.

Vague goals produce vague results

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.

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.

If you already know how to make your dream come true, then you're thinking too small.

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.

Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you. And then close your eyes and every day for several minutes, and visualize having what you already want, feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what you’re grateful for already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it. “Jack Canfield

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you.

The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.

If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You become like the people you spend the most time with.

Simply put, the Law of Attraction states that you will attract into your life whatever you focus on. Whatever you give your energy and attention to will come back to you. So, if you stay focused on the good and positive things in your life, you will automatically attract more good and positive things into your life.

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT

You either create or allow everything that happens to you.

Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!'

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.

If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.

People who don't have goals work for people who do.

Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.

Don't just sit there (and complain), do something.