Jack Canfield Quotes

I try to teach people that I believe God wants us to be positive toward ourselves, meaning that, you know what, I like the way I look, I like the way I sound, I'm happy with what I'm doing in my career - and not always be beating ourselves down.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you.

It takes a while to really love yourself...

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

Dare to love yourself

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

It is a radical act to believe in and like yourself.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

I know who I am and I've always been comfortable in my own skin.

I can live with myself.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.