Peter McWilliams Quotes

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

It's scary to take risks and it's scary to get out of your comfort zone, but it's also the most rewarding when you do.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

I think it's a dying thing these days, taking a chance. People don't always do it because they have comfort. And, you know, there might be something else out there you can do that makes you happier than the situation you're in.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

No matter what choice you make, it doesn't define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices and then turn around and walk a bad path. No choice we make lasts our whole life. If there's ever a choice you've made that you no longer agree with, you can make another choice.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

Your choices make you whoever you turn out to be.

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.