Vernon Howard Quotes

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

People are decisions and actions.

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

We, as individuals, are defined by the choices we make. Some of our decisions can have very significant consequences and totally change the courses of our lives.

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

We are the choices we make.

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.