Jack Canfield Quotes

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

I don't think I can be too hard on myself.

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.

We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

I can live with myself.

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.