105+ Wilferd Peterson Quotes On Education, Success And Prayer

Wilferd Peterson was an American author and lecturer. He wrote over 50 books on topics such as philosophy, religion, and literature. He was best known for his inspirational essays and lectures, which were widely published in newspapers and magazines. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Wilferd Peterson on love, life, education.

Top 10 Wilferd Peterson Quotes

1. Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.
5. Big thinking precedes great achievement.
6. We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .
7. 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.
8. Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.
9. Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."
• Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.
• I believe that to pray without ceasing means to think good thoughts without ceasing.
• Forgiveness works the miracle of change.
• Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
• The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.
• The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.
• In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.
• Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.
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Wilferd Peterson Quotes About Love

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Wilferd Peterson

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

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes. — Wilferd Peterson

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

Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights. — Wilferd Peterson

Wilferd Peterson Quotes About Life

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

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

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

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

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

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts! — Wilferd Peterson

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

Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future. — Wilferd Peterson

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

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

Wilferd Peterson Quotes About Success

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

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. — Wilferd Peterson

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

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

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

Wilferd Peterson Quotes About Prayer

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

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

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

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

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

Wilferd Peterson Quotes About Inspirational

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 your self! There is power in you — the power to change yourself and to change the world. — Wilferd Peterson

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

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

Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it is; it arouses the desire to change and improve things. The attitude of adventure is the flame that lights the fuse to explode new ideas. — Wilferd Peterson

Wilferd Peterson Quotes About Motivational

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

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

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

Wilferd Peterson Quotes About Light

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

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

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

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

Wilferd Peterson Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance. — Wilferd Peterson

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

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

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow. — Wilferd Peterson

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature. — Wilferd Peterson

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Wilferd Peterson

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

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

You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big. — Wilferd Peterson

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

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

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

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

It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them. — Wilferd Peterson

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

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

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

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. — Wilferd Peterson

Life Lessons by Wilferd Peterson

1. Wilferd Peterson's work emphasizes the importance of living life with intention and purpose, as well as the value of taking time to appreciate the beauty of the world around us.
2. Peterson's writing also encourages readers to stay positive and optimistic in the face of adversity, and to make the most of every opportunity.
3. Lastly, his work promotes the idea that we should strive to be the best version of ourselves, and to strive to make a positive impact on the world around us.