Top 120 Vernon Howard Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

— Vernon Howard

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2. “Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”

— Vernon Howard

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3. “You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”

— Vernon Howard

4. “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”

— Vernon Howard

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5. “Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.”

— Vernon Howard

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6. “Be teachable. That is the whole secret.”

— Vernon Howard

7. “You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.”

— Vernon Howard

8. “We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.”

— Vernon Howard

9. “You must never fear anything at all.”

— Vernon Howard

10. “Genuine effort is success.”

— Vernon Howard

11. “The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.”

— Vernon Howard

12. “The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.”

— Vernon Howard

13. “Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives.”

— Vernon Howard

14. “Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.”

— Vernon Howard

15. “Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.”

— Vernon Howard

16. “Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.”

— Vernon Howard

17. “The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.”

— Vernon Howard

18. “Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.”

— Vernon Howard

19. “The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.”

— Vernon Howard

20. “Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.”

— Vernon Howard

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21. “See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.”

— Vernon Howard

22. “Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.”

— Vernon Howard

23. “The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.”

— Vernon Howard

24. “What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.”

— Vernon Howard

25. “The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.”

— Vernon Howard

26. “Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.”

— Vernon Howard

27. “All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.”

— Vernon Howard

28. “A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.”

— Vernon Howard

29. “Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.”

— Vernon Howard

30. “The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.”

— Vernon Howard

31. “Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.”

— Vernon Howard

32. “Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.”

— Vernon Howard

33. “Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.”

— Vernon Howard

34. “Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.”

— Vernon Howard

35. “We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.”

— Vernon Howard

36. “Study carefully the law of cause and effect.”

— Vernon Howard

37. “Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.”

— Vernon Howard

38. “To change what you get you must change who you are.”

— Vernon Howard

39. “It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.”

— Vernon Howard

40. “Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.”

— Vernon Howard

41. “Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.”

— Vernon Howard

42. “You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.”

— Vernon Howard

43. “Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”

— Vernon Howard

44. “All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.”

— Vernon Howard

45. “We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.”

— Vernon Howard

46. “Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.”

— Vernon Howard

47. “Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.”

— Vernon Howard

48. “Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.”

— Vernon Howard

49. “One of society’s absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.”

— Vernon Howard

50. “Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.”

— Vernon Howard