Peter McWilliams Quotes

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• 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

  Inspirational, Mind, Responsible

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• 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

  People, Giving, Desire

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• 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

  Dream, Hard Times, Challenges

  Peter McWilliams (1994). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Prelude Press

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Fighting, Knowing Who You Are

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Reality, Focus And Concentration, Our Thoughts

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• 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?

  Peter McWilliams

  Smart, People, Upset

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• You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

  Peter McWilliams

  Want, Anything In Life

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Tattoo, Marriage, I Hate You

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• The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

  Peter McWilliams

  Ability, Willingness

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• 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

  Beautiful, People, Feelings

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Mistake, Needs

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• 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

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Disappointment, Moving, Simple

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Getting What You Want, Involved, Ifs

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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

  Peter McWilliams

  People, Hammers, Stones

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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• 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

  Order, People, Achievement

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Resources, What You Love

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Thinking, Addiction, Negative

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Peter McWilliams

  Giving, Ease, Way

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Risk, Irony

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

  Peter McWilliams

  Luxury, Negative, Enemy Within

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Keep your goals away from the trolls.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Goal, Troll

  Peter McWilliams (1995). “Love 101: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

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

  Peter McWilliams

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• 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

  Inspirational, Dream, Doors

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• ..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.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Jobs, Children

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