Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Charles A. Garfield (American Psychologist)

Charles A. Garfield (b.1944) is an American psychologist, academic, and author. He is a scholar on the science of “high achievement” and a renowned organizer of healthcare and social service-oriented volunteer establishments.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Garfield initially trained as a mathematician and worked on the Apollo 11 program. He later got a PhD in psychology at the University of California Berkeley.

Garfield was a clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco for almost four decades. He is currently a research scholar at the Starr King School for the Ministry at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

Garfield was one of America’s leading authorities on high achievement. His troika of books, Peak Performers (1984,) Team Management (1990,) and Second to None (1995,) provide a blueprint for leaders and teams who are pressured to improve continuously while doing more with less.

Garfield also focused on organizing healthcare and social service-oriented volunteer organizations. He has been recognized internationally as the founder of the Shanti Project, a widely acclaimed AIDS and cancer service organization. His books on caregiving include Psychosocial Care of the Dying Patient (1976,) Stress and Survival (1979,) and Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb: Love and Caregiving in a Time of AIDS (1997.) His latest book Life’s Last Gift (2017) offers a practical, compassionate end-of-life resource that explores the reciprocal and healing relationship between the living and the dying.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.
Charles A. Garfield
Topics: Change

When an idea that’s constitutionally right for you, an idea that’s an expression of your own heart, comes to mind, it’s very hard to deny it. It comes with a risk. You will always remember it like a lost love, a love that didn’t pan out, if you choose to deny it.
Charles A. Garfield

I’ve discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.
Charles A. Garfield

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind’s eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Charles A. Garfield
Topics: Imagination

Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.
Charles A. Garfield
Topics: Duty

Love heals. … It doesn’t always cure. There’s a difference between healing and curing. You can heal spiritually. You can heal emotionally. You can heal psychologically and socially, even if you don’t heal physically.
Charles A. Garfield

It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
Charles A. Garfield
Topics: Unity

Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst.
Charles A. Garfield
Topics: Principles

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
Charles A. Garfield
Topics: Behavior, Manners

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
Charles A. Garfield
Topics: Excellence

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