Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
—Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Topics: Patience
Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
—Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Topics: Excellence
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 Arlan Peterson
Topics: Life
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
—Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Topics: Concentration
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 Arlan Peterson
Topics: Achievements, Achievement
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
—Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Topics: Dreams
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 Arlan Peterson
Topics: Decision, Action
Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
—Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Topics: Happiness
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 Arlan Peterson
Topics: Christmas
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of
unfolding your personality into the man you want to be.
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.
—Wilferd Arlan Peterson
The wise man realistically accepts as 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 Arlan Peterson
Topics: Failure
See it big, and keep it simple.
—Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Topics: Simplicity
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 Arlan Peterson
Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
—Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Topics: Spirit, Spirituality
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- William Lyon Phelps American Scholar
- Jean Houston American Speaker, Author
- William Arthur Ward American Author
- Hugh Prather American Christian Author
- Randy Pausch American Computer Scientist
- Jim Bishop American Author, Journalist
- Helen Keller American Author
- Robert Fulghum American Unitarian Universalist Author
- Burton Hillis (William E. Vaughan) American Columnist
- James Agee American Man of Letters
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