Peter McWilliams Quotes

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

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.

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.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

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

Avoid People and Situations That Upset You. Those things, people, situations, and experiences you dont like--avoid them. Stay away. Walk away. Do something else. Some might call this cowardly. I call it smart. The world is brimming with things, people, and experiences. We will never experience all of them if we live to be 10,000. So why not associate with the ones that naturally please you?

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

Fill your life with people who applaud your positive thoughts, feelings, and actions; who encourage you toward more and better; who know how to praise the good and beautiful.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

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

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

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

If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Keep your goals away from the trolls.

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.