Wilferd Peterson
Wilferd Peterson
Wilferd Peterson quotes about
increasing life race remind
Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.
candles continue deeper despairing gives hope life light lights meaning millions power reach sees
While there is life there is hope, has deeper meaning in reverse. While there is hope there is life. Hope comes first, life follows. Hope gives power to life. Hope rouses life to continue to expand, to grow, to reach out, to go on. Hope sees a light where there isn't any. Hope lights candles in millions of despairing hearts. Where would I be without hope?
motivational book men
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.
motivational success journey
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.
success desire burning
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
motivational dream eye
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.
being-yourself stars champion
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.
god christian religious
He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.
motivational book inspiration
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.
hero men progress
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.
laughter happy-life medicine
Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!
kindness sleep ignorance
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
motivational art taken
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.
motivational wise philosophy
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.