Jack Canfield Quotes

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

In 2012, I promised myself I'd do something each month I'd never done before. So I skydived. I did trapeze lessons. I rode a motorcycle... All stuff that I'd never done.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.

I've chosen the parts that have interested me and parts that I thought I could do a job with but also were challenging and a little bit scary.

I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.

To be held back by fear is to miss out on challenging yourself in different ways.

When I went to Spain, it was a risk because I was really young. But I quickly learned the game, and I grew as a result.

If you don't get adventurous, you stay in the same spot; you don't really grow.

I think I've gotten to the point in my life where I have to do everything that I'm scared of because you're not going to learn anything if you don't, so you just have to dive in the deep end and see if you can swim.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

I like challenges in life and pushing myself out of my comfort zone.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing.

Excitement and reward exist only outside your comfort zone. You'll experience neither of them until you make yourself do something you really don't want to do. So what is it that scares the hell out of you?

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.