Peter Mcwilliams Quotes

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

- Peter McWilliams

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

- Peter McWilliams

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

- Peter McWilliams

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

- Peter McWilliams

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

- Peter McWilliams

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

- Peter McWilliams

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

- Peter McWilliams

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

- Peter McWilliams

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

- Peter McWilliams

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

- Peter McWilliams

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

- Peter McWilliams

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

- Peter McWilliams

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

- Peter McWilliams

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

- Peter McWilliams

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

- Peter McWilliams

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

- Peter McWilliams

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

- Peter McWilliams

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

- Peter McWilliams

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

- Peter McWilliams

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

- Peter McWilliams

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

- Peter McWilliams

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

- Peter McWilliams

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

- Peter McWilliams

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

- Peter McWilliams

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

- Peter McWilliams

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

- Peter McWilliams

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

- Peter McWilliams

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

- Peter McWilliams

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

- Peter McWilliams