Peter McWilliams Quotes

I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Learn to expect less from life and more from yourself. Accept the changes that life throws at you. Remember, your destiny is pretty much in your hands. So, as your mom may have told you, keep them clean.

I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

I've learned to go out and focus on what I can control, like how hard I work and my attitude and whether I'm happy or not. I've really tried to focus on those things.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

It's been something that has always been kind of okay with me - not in the sense that I didn't want to get better, but I always knew that I could get better.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

You will never change what you tolerate.

You will never change anything that you are willing to tolerate.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now