Wilferd Peterson Quotes, Thoughts and Images

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.

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

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

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

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

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

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.

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.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

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

See it big, and keep it simple.

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

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

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.

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.

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.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

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.

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

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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

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.

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.