Wilferd Peterson
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Love
Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Attitude
Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Motivational
The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Knowing
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.Collection: Hero
Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!Collection: Laughter
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.Collection: Strong
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .Collection: Kindness
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.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Art
See it big, and keep it simple.Collection: Simple
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 personCollection: Hero
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.Collection: Loyalty
Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.Collection: God
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.Collection: Reality
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Smell
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.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: God
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.Collection: God
Background for HumansCollection: Nature
Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.Collection: Motivation
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.Collection: Love
The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.Collection: God
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.Collection: Hero
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.Collection: Dream
Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.Collection: Art
By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.Collection: God
Love is the spiritual magnetism that draws men together, for the working of miracles.Collection: Love
I believe that to pray without ceasing means to think good thoughts without ceasing.Collection: God
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.Collection: Kindness
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.Collection: Book
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.Collection: Book
Love, in the words of the Master, is the shining commandment: LOVE ONE ANOTHER.Collection: Love
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.Collection: God
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.Collection: Art
The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Art
Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.Collection: Love Is
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.Collection: Serenity
It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Appreciation