Top 80 Wilferd Peterson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “See it big, and keep it simple.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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2. “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

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4. “Big thinking precedes great achievement.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

6. “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 Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

8. “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.”

— Wilferd Peterson

9. “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.”

— Wilferd Peterson

10. “Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.”

— Wilferd Peterson

11. “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

12. “Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.”

— Wilferd Peterson

13. “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

14. “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.”

— Wilferd Peterson

15. “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.”

— Wilferd Peterson

16. “The art of love is God at work through you.”

— Wilferd Peterson

17. “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.”

— Wilferd Peterson

18. “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

19. “Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.”

— Wilferd Peterson

20. “Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

23. “In gratitude for God’s gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.”

— Wilferd Peterson

24. “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 Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

26. “The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!”

— Wilferd Peterson

27. “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 Peterson

28. “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

29. “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.”

— Wilferd Peterson

30. “Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted.”

— Wilferd Peterson

31. “Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.”

— Wilferd Peterson

32. “The art of achievement is the art of making life – your life – a masterpiece.”

— Wilferd Peterson

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

— Wilferd Peterson

34. “Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: “Believe that you have it and you have it.””

— Wilferd Peterson

35. “The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that: “All things work together for good to them that love God.””

— Wilferd Peterson

36. “Forgiveness works the miracle of change.”

— Wilferd Peterson

37. “Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.”

— Wilferd Peterson

38. “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.”

— Wilferd Peterson

39. “A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors to new experiences. When he is unafraid of new ideas, new theories and new philosophies. When he has the curiosity to experiment. When he breaks the chain of routine.”

— Wilferd Peterson

40. “Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.”

— Wilferd Peterson

41. “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 Peterson

42. “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

43. “Love is the spiritual magnetism that draws men together, for the working of miracles.”

— Wilferd Peterson

44. “Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.”

— Wilferd Peterson

45. “The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field – and keep on doing it.”

— Wilferd Peterson

46. “When one has reverence for life, one will never do anything to harm, hinder, or destroy life. Instead one bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. One strives to maintain, enhance, and assist life to make the most of itself.”

— Wilferd Peterson

47. “Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.”

— Wilferd Peterson

48. “Don’t point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.”

— Wilferd Peterson

49. “Background for Humans.”

— Wilferd Peterson

50. “Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man’s life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the challenge will determine his future.”

— Wilferd Peterson