Wilferd Peterson Quotes - Page 4

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

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

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

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

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.

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

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

Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.