Quote

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.

Wilferd Peterson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Wilferd Peterson
Art
Life
Masterpiece
Achievement
Making

More quotes by Wilferd Peterson

Image
Great men are little men expanded great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
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.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
See it big, and keep it simple.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
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.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
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.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
We can make these three dynamic words - reverence for life - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. The good person, said Schweitzer, is the friend of all living things.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
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.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
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.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure it is the personal practice of the presence of God.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
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.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
I believe that to pray without ceasing means to think good thoughts without ceasing.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
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 Peterson
Image
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.
Wilferd Peterson