Peter McWilliams Quotes

If you stop now and start to realise what you have achieved, then you start to relax, and you start to lose. I don't think about everything I have achieved. I will do it when I retire because then I will have a lot of days to remember.

Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or have. Some desires are merely passing fancies, but others stay with us and go deeper. Our desires and our goals give us direction and focus. They help point us down our path of action in our life.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

What keeps me going is goals.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

I would die without goals or a focus. I need something to keep me going.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'

Focus your vision by giving it a goal.

Even when you're not acting, don't lose sight of your goals or who you are.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

When you set goals and you reach those goals in mid-August and early September, there's nothing to look forward to. You sort of lose your drive.

I'm someone who needs goals and direction, and fighting provided that for me.

Don't be one foot in and one foot out, especially coming up in New York. It's so easy to lose sight of what you want to do and who you want to be.

Just because I bought some jewelry and things I've always wished for and always wanted, it doesn't mean I'm not focused. It doesn't mean that I'm not hungry anymore.

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want, then it's probably time to die.

Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.