Quote of the Day — Jack Canfield
May 18, 2026
Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful life. — Jack Canfield
1944–present
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1944–present
American author and motivational speaker born in 1944, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print, and co-author with Janet Switzer of The Success Principles.
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Kim Monson built the entire Monday broadcast around gratitude, pairing Jack Canfield’s line with the news that Governor Polis had commuted Tina Peters’ sentence and with a running theme that an engaged, thankful citizenry is the antidote to bigger government. The quote framed conversations from auto insurance to election integrity in the May 18, 2026 broadcast on gratitude and the Peters clemency, which closed with Canfield’s companion line that people make their own luck through preparation and strategy.
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May 18, 2026
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Commutation
In criminal law, a reduction of a convicted person’s sentence to a lesser one by an act of executive clemency,…
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Gratitude, the Peters Clemency, and the Price of Bigger Government
Roger Mangan on permissive use, Rich Guggenheim on his Senate run, Joondeph on political violence, and Susan Harris on the Tina Peters clemency. May 18,…
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