Jack Canfield Quotes

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

When you get older, you feel better about yourself. You're not worried what other people think about you, in general. You just get more comfortable in your skin.

I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence.

Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.