Top 120 Vernon Howard Quotes (2025 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

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

— Vernon Howard

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

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

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

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

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10. “Genuine effort is success.”

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

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

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

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

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15. “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

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

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

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18. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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24. “The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.”

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

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26. “We are exactly where we have chosen to be.”

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27. “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.”

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

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29. “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.”

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

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31. “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.”

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32. “Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.”

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33. “It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.”

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34. “There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.”

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35. “A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way.”

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36. “Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.”

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37. “You command a condition by having no negative attitudes toward it.”

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

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

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

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

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42. “Change is never a loss – it is change only.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “Don’t try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.”

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45. “The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.”

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46. “It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.”

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

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48. “The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.”

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49. “Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.”

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50. “A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.”

— Vernon Howard