Jack Canfield Quotes

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

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.

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

I have done practically everything that I wanted to do in my life.

If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.

Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I certainly feel as if I've been blessed professionally and personally, but I've still got moves I'd like to make.

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.