Wilferd Peterson Quotes
Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.
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.
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.
Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.
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.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .
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.
Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.
Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
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."
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.
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'.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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.
Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.
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 should not do.
Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.
Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.
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.
Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.
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.
The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!
Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.
Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.
You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I believe that to pray without ceasing means to think good thoughts without ceasing.
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.
You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.
In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.
Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
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.
Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.
Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.