Peter McWilliams Quotes

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

It's one of those things that I use everything that I go through... to be better. I use it all to just fuel the fire, to grow and learn from.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

The more you practive overcoming your obstacles, the more you will welcome them & be unafraid.

As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.

Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.