Wilferd Peterson famous quotes

The leader sees things through the eyes of his followers. He puts himself in their shoes and helps them make their dreams come true. The leader does not say, "Get going!" Instead he says, "Let's go!" and leads the way. He does not walk behind with a whip; he is out in front with a banner.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Motivational #Dream #Eye

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Courage #Light #Shining

Big thinking precedes great achievement.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Inspirational #Thinking #Achievement

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Being Yourself #Stars #Champion

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Inspirational #Success #Dream

See it big, and keep it simple.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Simple #Simplicity #Bigs

When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Loyalty #Encouragement #Gratitude

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Men #Excellence #Littles

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Life #Attitude #Love Yourself

You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore yourself! There is power in you - the power to change yourself and to change the world; the power to create plans, projects, movements for the common good; the power to inspire and serve.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Writing #Discovery #Inspire

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination.  It is a continuing upward spiral of progress.  It is perpetual growth.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Motivational #Success #Journey

Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things. It is the mental stance you take as you face your day. It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness. It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you. The attitude of adventure will open things up for you. The world will become alive with new zest and meaning. You'll become more aware of the beauty everywhere. Nothing will seem unimportant. Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Attitude #Adventure #Zest

Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the power of the spirit when all seems lost. It proves, over and over again, the truth of Tennyson's words: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." Prayer puts us on God's side. It aligns us with life's higher purposes, aims, and ideals. Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Dream #Prayer #Healing

The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Secret #Alive #Today

Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Light #Tolerance #Understanding

The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Leadership #Mind #Way

Love is the spiritual magnetism that draws men together, for the working of miracles.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Love #Spiritual #Men

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Kindness #Inspiration #Heart

Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Character #Blow #Reflection

Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Serenity #Challenges #Each Day

To have an open self is to provide a free channel for the infinite goodness of God. To have an open self is to keep yourself aware, alert and sensitive to the beauty and wonder of life. God's love will flow through you into the world when you are open. You enlarge the dimensions of your life when you keep yourself open to the highest and best. The key to God's infinite riches is within you; open yourself and you will receive.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Self #Keys #World

A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Smell #Appreciate #Feelings

Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Wise #Philosophy #Failure

The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Motivational #Art #Taken

He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of 'nothing attempted, nothing gained' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Motivational #Wise #Philosophy

You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Motivational #Book #Inspiration

Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Motivational #Book #Men

Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Motivational #Years #Add

Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one increasing, dynamic purpose. There are the lights and shadows that make your life deep and strong. There are the little touches that add the stamp of character and worth. The art of achievement is the art of making life-your life-a masterpiece.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Strong #Character

Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Laughter #Nerves #Calm

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Happiness #Heart #Mind

Background for Humans
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Nature #Backgrounds #Humans

"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Hope #Long #Situation

When one has reverence for life, one will never do anything to harm, hinder, or destroy life. Instead one bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. One strives to maintain, enhance, and assist life to make the most of itself.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Destiny #Effort #Helping

Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is instantly available. By continuously practicing good will we cultivate a deep subconscious habit of good will. It becomes a pattern of our response in all situations. Good will works as silently as the sun and with as much power. It thaws the ice and snow of resistance and indifference. It warms and wins human hearts. It draws forth the best in others as flowers are drawn from the soil. It stimulates growth.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Flower #Heart #Winning

He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Confidence #Dream #Important

Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Confidence #Believe #Goal

In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Adventure #Practice

Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Hero #Giving #Waiting

Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Hero #Heart #Humble

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Success #Desire #Burning

Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Hands #Two #Achievement

The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. . . . Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal. . . . Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Honesty #Attitude

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Wise #Life Lesson #Good Day

In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Gratitude #Art #Blessing

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Children #Parenthood #Our Children

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Knowing #Issues #Decision

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Achievement #Masterpiece

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Appreciation #Love Life #Hands

Believing is a daring adventure into the unseen, it is a radiant faith in the unexplored, the undiscovered, the miracles of the future. . . There is magic in the art of believing! Believe! Engrave these words of the Master in your memory: "All things are possible to those who believe." Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Faith #Art #Memories

A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors to new experiences. When he is unafraid of new ideas, new theories and new philosophies. When he has the curiosity to experiment. When he breaks the chain of routine.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Philosophy #Adventure

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Christmas #Dream #Lying

Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Confidence #Latin #Believe

Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Courage #Honesty #Attitude

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Creativity #Ideas #Creative

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Wisdom #Art #Prayer

The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that: "All things work together for good to them that love God."
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Wisdom #New Day #Challenges

Forgiveness works the miracle of change.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Forgiveness #Miracle

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Giving Up #Decision #Sparks

As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Flower #Sunset #Autumn

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Book #Light #Phrases

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Greatness #Men #Simple

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Life #Art #Each Day

Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Faith #Believe #Wonder

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I have found in my own experience that it is of no small benefit, when you lie in bed in the dark, to recall in imagination, one after another, the outlines of the form you have been studying." He often awoke to find his problems solved. Da Vinci would often stand silent and motionless before a painting for hours, without using his brush, as though waiting for spiritual guidance.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Spiritual #Lying #Dark

The art of love is God at work through you.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Love #Christian #Art

Love, in the words of the Master, is the shining commandment: LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Love #Christian #Shining

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Ideas #Two

As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Knowing #Joy #Bigs

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Book #Reading #Learning

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Mother #Encouragement #Son

Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your search for creative answers to problems. Imagination "stirs up the gift of God in thee." Through your imagination you touch and express the inspiration of the Infinite. Imagination, in the words of Shakespeare, "gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." You reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, then you bring it down to earth and make it work.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Inspiration #Reality

Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of day. Imagination becomes for you a magic lamp with which to search the darkness of the unknown, that you may discover new goals or chart more productive paths to old goals.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Eye #Dark

Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Imagination #Crowds

Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Dream #Art #Children

Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Art #Light #Flames

The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic creative power. The consciousness of being loved is an uplifting, saving, healing force that causes one to go on when otherwise it would be impossible to do so. "Love," said Emerson, "is the affirmative of affirmatives."
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Love #Uplifting #Healing

We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things."
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Life #Three #Becoming

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you shouldn't do. Success is not limited to any one area of your life. It encompasses all the facets of your relationships: as parent, as wife or husband, as citizen, neighbor, worker and all of the others. Success is not confined to any one part of your personality but is related to the development of all the parts: body, mind, heart and spirit. It is making the most of your total self.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Success #Husband #Heart

Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God's inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in ways that are good and noble we are serving as radiating centers for God's inspiration.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

I believe that God is a power underneath my life here on earth. His goodness undergirds me and uplifts me.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Uplifting #Christian

In my opinion we can never think of God in big enough terms. He is bigger than our biggest thoughts of Him. Our imaginations cannot stretch wide enough to take in all of God.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

I believe that to pray without ceasing means to think good thoughts without ceasing.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.
-- Wilferd Peterson

#God #Christian #Religious

Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Believe #Thinking #Ideas