Top 120 Peter McWilliams Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Emotion is energy in motion.”

— Peter McWilliams

2. “The willingness to do creates the ability to do.”

— Peter McWilliams

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

— Peter McWilliams

4. “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

5. “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.”

— Peter McWilliams

6. “In life, we have either reasons or results.”

— Peter McWilliams

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

— Peter McWilliams

8. “You can have anything in life you really want – but you can’t have everything in life you really want. Decide.”

— Peter McWilliams

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

— Peter McWilliams

10. “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.”

— Peter McWilliams

11. “If you want peace with others, don’t fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine. If you walk alone for awhile, fine. If you don’t like what’s going on somewhere, leave. Maintain a portable paradise within yourself.”

— Peter McWilliams

12. “You can’t afford the luxury of a negative thought.”

— Peter McWilliams

13. “The only difference between ‘fear’ and ‘excitement’ is what we label it.”

— Peter McWilliams

14. “Keep your goals away from the trolls.”

— Peter McWilliams

15. “Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.”

— Peter McWilliams

16. “Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.”

— Peter McWilliams

17. “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.”

— Peter McWilliams

18. “If you’re not playing a big enough game, you’ll screw up the game you’re playing just to give yourself something to do.”

— Peter McWilliams

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

— Peter McWilliams

20. “People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.”

— Peter McWilliams

21. “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.”

— Peter McWilliams

22. “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

23. “Nothing adventured, nothing attained.”

— Peter McWilliams

24. “Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in “Poof! There it is” – but eventually. Where we put our focus – our inner and outer vision – is the direction we tend to go. That’s our desire, our intention...”

— Peter McWilliams

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

— Peter McWilliams

26. “The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.”

— Peter McWilliams

27. “Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.”

— Peter McWilliams

28. “Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life’s purpose will return.”

— Peter McWilliams

29. “Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground ‘moneymakers’ in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.”

— Peter McWilliams

30. “Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.”

— Peter McWilliams

31. “Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love...”

— Peter McWilliams

32. “Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don’t create a Master Teacher – that’s already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.”

— Peter McWilliams

33. “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

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

— Peter McWilliams

35. “When thought and action are combined, the results are powerful-among the most powerful forces on earth. The combination of successful communication-the sharing of thoughts-and physical action can, literally, move mountains.”

— Peter McWilliams

36. “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.”

— Peter McWilliams

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

— Peter McWilliams

38. “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

39. “Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.”

— Peter McWilliams

40. “When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday’s incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don’t carry it.”

— Peter McWilliams

41. “To change rules that are already in place takes time, energy, perseverance and a lot of hard work. You only have so many of these assets at your disposal, so choose with care the rules you want to change.”

— Peter McWilliams

42. “To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real – a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.”

— Peter McWilliams

43. “Negative thinking is always expensive – dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically – hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.”

— Peter McWilliams

44. “Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we’re not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.”

— Peter McWilliams

45. “And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.”

— Peter McWilliams

46. “Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.”

— Peter McWilliams

47. “You need only look at what’s in front of you and find something there to appreciate.”

— Peter McWilliams

48. “Life is not a struggle. It’s a wiggle.”

— Peter McWilliams

49. “Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?”

— Peter McWilliams

50. “To affirm is to make firm.”

— Peter McWilliams