Peter McWilliams Quotes

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.

You have to feel good about yourself.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone. I think that’s very, very important, no matter how old you are or what you’re doing. You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

You can only experience love if you have self love.