Jack Canfield (b.1944) is an American self-help author and motivational speaker. He is the co-author, with Mark Victor Hansen, of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which, since 1993, has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 40 languages.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Canfield attended Harvard University where he graduated with a B.A. in Chinese history in 1966. He also obtained a Masters in Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1973.
Each of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, ranging from Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul through Chicken Soup for the Teenager’s Soul to Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul, contains a now-familiar stimulating assortment of short stories and poems designed to ‘inspire and motivate you to love more unconditionally, live with more passion and pursue your heartfelt dreams with more conviction.’
Canfield is also the principal of the Canfield Training Group in Santa Barbara, California, and The Foundation for Self-Esteem in Culver City, California. His Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises promotes his radio program and syndicated column, published in some 150 periodicals worldwide.
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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
—Jack Canfield
Topics: Fear
What you declare, you will achieve. When you think you can’t revisit a previous triumph.
—Jack Canfield
Topics: Achievement
Success isn’t magic or hocus-pocus—its simply learning how to focus.
—Jack Canfield
When you’re nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.
—Jack Canfield
Topics: Charity, Giving
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
—Jack Canfield
Topics: Action
The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.
—Jack Canfield
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
—Jack Canfield
Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers.
—Jack Canfield
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