Wilferd A Peterson Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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

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#20. 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."

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#21. 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.

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#22. In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

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#23. 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.

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#24. Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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#27. Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!

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#28. 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.

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#29. Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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 ...

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#33. Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

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

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#35. 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.

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#36. 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.

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