Vernon Howard Quotes

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

You've got to kind of speak things into existence if you really want them to happen.

It doesn't always work out, but if I visualize myself getting what I want, it can happen.

I've just always believed you can get anything you want in this life - anything you want.

Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.

'Mamma Mia' and 'Dallas' have proved to me that the things you dream about can happen. I don't ask myself, 'How did I get here?' but instead, 'I deserve to be here. I was right to think this would happen.' I'm a firm believer in the power we have in our minds to want something and pursue it in a sane and focused way.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.

I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.

At drama school, we were taught to write down your dreams and carry them around in your wallet with you, and they'll come true, but I didn't do that.

I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.

I'm a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens.

Don't use your words to describe your reality. Use your words to create your desired reality.