J. Canfield & M. V. Hansen Quotes

“Almost everything we’ll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really

produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . .

requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It’s often scary. It requires something you didn’t know before or a skill you didn’t have before. But in the end, it’s worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, ‘Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.’ Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.”

– Jack Canfield

“When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“When you accomplish a goal, don’t cross it out. Instead, write ‘victory’

next to it and move on to the next one. This way, whenever you have a bad day, all you have to do is to review your victories to feel good about yourself.”

– Jack Canfield

“Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life helps to make us what we are meant to be.”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day…between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making certain they’re always positive.”

– Jack Canfield

“If you do things the same way you’ve always done them, you’ll get the same outcomes you’ve always gotten. In order to change your outcomes, you’ve got to do things differently.”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“One Dad I know uses what I call Post-It® Note therapy on his

children. He leaves sticky Post-It Notes everywhere …in their lunch box, inside their shoes, on top of their sandwich before he wraps it up. He once went into his daughter’s room, looking for his hammer, and on the back of her bedroom door were every Post-It Note he’d ever given her - over 250 in all with simple messages like ‘Great job’…’I love you’…or

‘You’re special to me.’ Do you think that girl knew, without a doubt, that her Dad valued her and loved her? “

– Jack Canfield

“When you improve your business, life, relationships, finances and your health, the whole world improves.”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can’t fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don’t have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you’ve got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.”

– Jack Canfield

“Life, nature and God always answer, ‘Yes,’ to you. What are you asking for?”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“Peter Thigpen, formerly Vice-President at Levi Strauss & Company, always kept a victory log. In it, he listed his accomplishments like…Opened up China as a market, Got my teenage son to clean up his room, Got the Board of Directors to approve the new expansion plan. Whenever he faced something really daunting, like negotiating a major bank loan, he would review his Victory Log. You can do the same. In fact, when you focus on tasks completed successfully, it gives you the expectancy of success, which can change your entire posture or approach going forward.”

– Jack Canfield

“A self-fulfilling prophecy is that you get what you expect. Why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible for yourself and the whole world?”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“The greatest deficit in America isn’t the trade deficit. It’s the attention deficit of our children. The average child gets 14 minutes of attention a day from each of his parents. So the greatest thing you can give a kid is time spent listening to him or her.”

– Jack Canfield

“The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans.”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly…even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you’re depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully.”

– Jack Canfield

“When you have purpose, you don’t have time for negativity.”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn’t selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board’s decision, my friend said she felt great.

‘How come?’ I asked. She said with a smile, ‘I just figured God had something better in store for me.’”

– Jack Canfield

“Amaze yourself; manifest your full potential.” - Mark Victor Hansen

“The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a sense of being nurtured. That’s the lovable part. Then, we must provide structure - rules, boundaries, daily or weekly household tasks that give them a sense they are making a contribution. That’s what helps kids grow up feeling capable.”

– Jack Canfield

“Be passionately on purpose about your right livelihood”

- Mark Victor Hansen