Jack Canfield Quotes

delivering a speech or presentation is like cooking a meal; as long as the chef is good the cuisine doesn’t matter.

They all started with a dream and a plan, but once they started, things unfolded in unexpected ways.

I no longer held onto any preconceived notions of how my life should turn out.

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31

we cannot control how others feel and react. Even though we should understand feelings, there are some things that are out of our control, and some decisions we can only make for ourselves.

To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.

pray that in the large things and small things, whenever He asks me to “give it up for Him,” no matter what He asks of me, I will respond immediately, “Yes, Lord!

Once, for example, on a train going across Canada, I began talking to a man everyone was avoiding because he was weaving and slurring his speech as if drunk. It turned out that he was recovering from a stroke. He had been an engineer on the same line we were riding, and long into the night he revealed to me the history beneath every mile of track: Pile O’Bones Creek, named for the thousands of buffalo skeletons left there by Indian hunters; the legend of Big Jack, a Swedish track-layer who could lift 500-pound steel rails; a conductor named McDonald who kept a rabbit as his traveling companion. As the morning sun began to tint the horizon, he grabbed my hand and looked into my eyes. “Thanks for listening. Most people wouldn’t bother.” He didn’t have to thank me. The pleasure had been all mine.

You don’t have to let yourself be terrorized by other people’s expectations of you.

On course” or “Off course.” The answer is always “Off course.” And here is the interesting part: I was off course more than I was on course, and I still got there . . . just by continually taking action and constantly adjusting to the feedback. The same is true in life. All we have to do is to start to take action and then respond to the feedback.

College Psychology 101 explained that children cannot learn when they are hungry, smelly or teased.

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When we were merely little girls, still full of innocence and wonder, I tied your shoes and made sure your lip wasn’t bleeding. “Best friends since third grade,” we’ve always said. We’ve been to hell and back, with our bleeding hearts and tampered souls.

Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright.
-Job 33:23