M. Scott Peck quotes

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. (M. Scott Peck)
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
M. Scott Peck
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. Scott Peck
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.
M. Scott Peck
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
M. Scott Peck
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
M. Scott Peck
Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.
M. Scott Peck
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. (M. Scott Peck)
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
M. Scott Peck
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
M. Scott Peck
Love always requires courage and involves risk.
M. Scott Peck
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.
M. Scott Peck
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived."
M. Scott Peck
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.
M. Scott Peck
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.
M. Scott Peck
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
M. Scott Peck
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful. (M. Scott Peck)
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott Peck
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck
Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.
M. Scott Peck