Jack Canfield Quotes

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is your greatest asset.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there.

I will say that I wasn't susceptible to Tony Robbins-like pitches, even as a younger man.

I've seen the power of Life Coaching firsthand and I know how beneficial it can be.

I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

I thought that if I was able to change myself, I would be more successful.

I like to tell people that I have some of the biggest mentors in the world... they just don't know I exist. Dave Ramsey, Sara Blakely, Oprah, Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard - I've learned everything I know from their wisdom through books, podcasts and conferences.

You need to be comfortable with yourself first and then decide what you want to achieve.

When I started my podcast, 'The School of Greatness,' one of the top three people I wanted to get on the show was Tony Robbins.