Peter McWilliams Quotes

I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

To move past fear is a cliche.

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

Fear is an opportunity for courage.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

You can't live in fear all the time.

The minute I think 'Oh God, I don't want to do this because I'm scared,' is the moment I have to do something, whatever it is.

I came across the idea of running towards the things that frighten you. Once you go and do it, you realise that the fear of it is far more powerful than actually doing it.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.