Vernon Howard Quotes

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.