Wilferd Arlan Peterson

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 Arlan Peterson

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 Arlan Peterson

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson

The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God’s gift of life.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson

The art of love is God at work through you.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson

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 Arlan Peterson

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 Arlan Peterson

The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson

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 Arlan Peterson

Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man’s knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson