Wilferd Peterson Quotes Page 2

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.
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Decision |

Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life.
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Birthday Quotes |

Choose well your words. They will go marching down the years in the lives you touch.
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Words of Encouragement |

Each of us has the power to inspire or depress, to lift others or to push them down. We should look well to our words.
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Inspirational Quotes |

Our first task then, in living with ourselves, is to be ourselves, to be genuine and sincere, to go forth to others as persons we truly are without shame or pretense.
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Being Yourself |

In living with others on this earth we need at last to recognize the reality of brotherhood. We are brothers. We share a common fate.
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Brotherhood |

There is inspiration in the fact that those who have taken the hardest blows have been our greatest men. Their handicaps have only spurred them on!
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Greatness |

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny spark of possibility within you into the flame of achievement.
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Believe In Yourself |

Great things are going to be done in the years ahead, and you may be one of those to be listed among the achievers.
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Graduation |

Through books you can orient your life to the world you live in, for books link the past, the present and the future.
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Quotes about Books |

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life- a masterpiece.
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Quotes about Life |

Work brings man to life, sets him in motion. Work is man in action doing things. Nothing happens until people go to work. Work creates the world we live in.
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Action |

Listen to the good. Tune your ears to love, hope and courage. Tune out gossip, fear and resentment.
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Listening |

Imagination enlarges vision, stretches the mind, challenges the impossible. Without imagination, thought comes to a halt.
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Imagination |

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage must be created. In the art of marriage the little things are the big things.
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Marriage |

Our children are watching us live, and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.
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Children |

Simplicity avoids the superficial, penetrates the complex, goes to the heart of the problem and pinpoints the key factors.
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Simplicity |

A home should be a stockade, a refuge from the flaming arrows of anxiety, tension and worry.
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Home |

Forgiveness should start now. Putting off forgiving only deepens the wound. Clinging to bitterness postpones happiness. Life is short, time is fleeting. Today is the day to forgive.
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Forgiveness |

He who would practice the art of tolerance must guard wll against an attitude of superiority, smugness, indifference and coldness. These qualities are tolerance turned wrong side out.
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Tolerance |

The art of common sense is applying the best wisdom we know today based on all our yesterdays.
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Common Sense |

Retirement does not mean that you are all through. It means that you have experienced a big break-through to a new freedom, with the time to do the things you've always wanted to do.
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Retirement |

Prayer opens doors to let in God and let out self, to let in love and let out hate, to let in faith and let out fear.
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Prayer |

Without the power to decide, a man's thoughts and dreams are like vapor blown in the wind. He goes nowhere until he decides where to go.
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Dream |

Tell the funny story on yourself so that the laugh is on you; always laugh with others never at them.
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Funny |

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.
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Leadership |

Big thinking precedes great achievement.
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Achievement |

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.
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Work |

He creates mental pictures of his goals, then works to make those pictures become realities.
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Vision |

Each day is a lifetime in miniature.
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Time |

Stay young by continuing to grow. You do not grow old, you become old by not growing.
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Personal Development Quotes |

Begin today to be the person you want to be.
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New Beginnings |

The finest gift a man can give to his age and time is the gift of a constructive and creative life.
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Age |

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.
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Success |

Be grateful for the precious gift of life with its limitless possibilities.
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Possibilities |

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