Top 70 Werner Erhard Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self expression is a function of responsibility.”

— Werner Erhard

2. “The essence of communication is intention.”

— Werner Erhard

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3. “Create your future from your future, not your past.”

— Werner Erhard

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4. “It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action.”

— Werner Erhard

5. “Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”

— Werner Erhard

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6. “Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.”

— Werner Erhard

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7. “Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such heroes, by men and women who will stand for the result while it is only a possibility – people who will act to make possibility real.”

— Werner Erhard

8. “At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.”

— Werner Erhard

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9. “Love is granting another the space to be the way they are and the way they are not.”

— Werner Erhard

10. “Until you know that who you are is empty and meaningless, you don’t know anything.”

— Werner Erhard

11. “Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader within ourselves.”

— Werner Erhard

12. “If God told you exactly what it was you were to do, you would be happy doing it no matter what it was. What you’re doing is what God wants you to do. Be happy.”

— Werner Erhard

13. “Self expression is a function of responsibility.”

— Werner Erhard

14. “Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it.”

— Werner Erhard

15. “In life you wind up with one of two things – the results or the reason why you don’t have the results. Results don’t have to be explained. They just are.”

— Werner Erhard

16. “You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.”

— Werner Erhard

17. “Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn’t, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn’t, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.”

— Werner Erhard

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18. “The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness.”

— Werner Erhard

19. “The fastest way to destroy love is to make a goal out of it, because people who are trying to be loved come from a place that they’re not loved.”

— Werner Erhard

20. “There is something I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything.”

— Werner Erhard

21. “Until you’ve completed your relationship with your parents, all your relationships will be about your parents.”

— Werner Erhard

22. “In every human being there is both garbage and gold, it is up to us to choose what we pay attention to.”

— Werner Erhard

23. “Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.”

— Werner Erhard

24. “All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains: “What We Know”, “What We Know That We Don’t Know”, and “What We Don’t Know That We Don’t Know.””

— Werner Erhard

25. “The reaction you got was the communication you intended.”

— Werner Erhard

26. “Your power is a function of velocity, that is to say, your power is a function of the rate at which you translate intention into reality. Most of us disempower ourselves by finding a way to slow, impede, or make more complex than necessary the process of translating intention into reality.”

— Werner Erhard

27. “Don’t change beliefs. Transform the believer.”

— Werner Erhard

28. “In life, understanding is the booby prize.”

— Werner Erhard

29. “One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something you’re just changing something. So in order to create something you first have to be able to create nothing.”

— Werner Erhard

30. “When you’ve said all of the bad things and all of the good things you haven’t been saying, you will find that what you’ve really been withholding is, “I love you.” You don’t have to go looking for love when it is where you come from.”

— Werner Erhard

31. “Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to.”

— Werner Erhard

32. “There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.”

— Werner Erhard

33. “Participation: What I intend to create is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of people. For me it is the highest expression of humanity to contribute, to facilitate, to participate in the transformation of humanity.”

— Werner Erhard

34. “To take a stand for the future is to bring forth an opportunity not borne of the path we’ve taken in the past, but borne of a vision which we would create for ourselves.”

— Werner Erhard

35. “Living is really pretty simple. Living happens right now; it doesn’t happen back then, and it doesn’t happen out there. Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now.”

— Werner Erhard

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36. “The quickest way to be happy is to choose what you already have.”

— Werner Erhard

37. “Begin building the future through “conversation for possibility.””

— Werner Erhard

38. “Honoring your word is also the route to creating whole and complete social and working relationships. In addition, it provides an actionable pathway to earning the trust of others.”

— Werner Erhard

39. “The world is perfect the way it is.”

— Werner Erhard

40. “If its comfort you want, life is not the place to be.”

— Werner Erhard

41. “This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what’s so.”

— Werner Erhard

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42. “I used to be different. Now I’m the same.”

— Werner Erhard

43. “Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.”

— Werner Erhard

44. “Here’s my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I’m sure about is I’m real ordinary. Yet I’ve had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.”

— Werner Erhard

45. “We distinguish integrity as a phenomenon of the objective state or condition of an object, system, person, group, or organizational entity, and define integrity as: a state or condition of being whole, complete, unbroken, unimpaired, sound, perfect condition.”

— Werner Erhard

46. “Life is already together, and what you have to experience is experiencing it being together. The striving to put it together is a denial of the truth that it is actually already together and further striving keeps you from getting it together.”

— Werner Erhard

47. “If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.”

— Werner Erhard

48. “There are all kinds of futures. There is a hoped-for future, there is a feared future, there is a predictable future, and there is an unimagined future.”

— Werner Erhard

49. “Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic.”

— Werner Erhard

50. “Your life and my life have turned out, and once you get that, life goes on from a position of having turned out. That’s called playing the game from win.”

— Werner Erhard