Jack Canfield Quotes

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

I want to do good work in the world.

Before I leave this earth, I'm going to help people have a better future.

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

I've always enjoyed doing work that intrudes, or helps people.

I go where the good work is being done.

I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who do things to help people.

What matters is how well we do in trying to make people's lives better. That's why I'm doing this. That's why I work the way that I work. And that's why I love what I'm doing so much.

After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

We always work for money but when you do something for The Banyan, you feel so good.

I think most people want to be remembered with the causes they feel worthwhile and helped promote.

Any time you can have an impact on anybody's life in a positive direction, to bring happiness to the community or a certain group of people, you don't take that lightly as a team, as a player.