Wilferd Peterson
Wilferd Peterson
confidence believe goal
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.
art achievement brush-strokes
The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.
mother encouragement son
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'.
book reading learning
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.
reality mind want
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.
hair hands white
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.
kindness sleep ignorance
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
attitude adventure men
Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it is; it arouses the desire to change and improve things. The attitude of adventure is the flame that lights the fuse to explode new ideas.
secret alive today
The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!
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.
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.
laughter happy-life medicine
Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!
art example parenthood
In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.