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Vernon Howard Quotes
Vernon Howard Quotes
Vernon Howard
American
Author
Born:
Mar 16
,
1918
Died:
Aug 23
,
1992
Man
People
Power
Will
You
Yourself
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard
Lion
Strength
Needs
Strong
Sheep
Others
Approval
More
Does
Truly
Than
Person
Any
Need
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
Vernon Howard
Nature
Spiritual
People
Political
Desperate
Power
Other
Telling
Distraction
Find
Seek
Attempt
Never
Fail
Over
Self-Discovery
Emptiness
Social
Themselves
Certain
Fill
Inner
Number
Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
Vernon Howard
Day
Path
Will
Rest
Follow
Direction
Uphill
Upward
Your
Start
To change what you get, you must change who you are.
Vernon Howard
You
Change
Must
Get
Who
Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
Vernon Howard
Truth
Humanity
Appreciates
About
Silver
Squirrel
Much
Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
Vernon Howard
Strength
Personality
Dangerous
Dictatorship
Tyranny
Cruelty
Power
Think
Additional
Hesitate
Characteristics
Weaknesses
Outcomes
Folks
Some
Somehow
Seize
Individual
Wrong
Powerful
Because
False
Disguised
Acquired
Notion
The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.
Vernon Howard
Great
Problems
Transformation
Solution
Individual
Human
Inner
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
Vernon Howard
Spiritual
Yourself
Evil
Destroy
Above
Only
Attack
Neurosis
Arising
Badness
Development
Motive
Human
Which
Against
Your
Enlightenment
Chance
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Vernon Howard
Yourself
Just Be
Opens
Just
Door
Honest
Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
Vernon Howard
Will
First
Later
Ally
Idea
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
New
Along
Reveal
Unwillingly
New Idea
Go
Itself
Quietly
Your
Even
Resist
Receptive
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
Vernon Howard
Life
Man
People
Will
Stage
Out
Tell
Horror
Through
Observation
He
Putting
Performance
Most
Because
Permanent
Go
Cunning
Get
Getting
Order
Wants
Your
Found
Actor
Why
Reject
For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
Vernon Howard
Waiting
Problem
Confusion
Ambition
Every
Force
Call
Available
Your
Desire
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Vernon Howard
Man
Finally
Miracle
Only
Sees
True
Himself
His
Opposition
Problems are cured by facing their cause.
Vernon Howard
Cause
Problems
Facing
Cured
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Vernon Howard
Feelings
Become
Assume
Our
Must
See
Emotional
Hypnotic
Household
Hold
Breaks
Acquainted
Us
Actually
Damaging
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Vernon Howard
You
People
Follow
Properly
Make
Person
Them
Persuade
Who
Appreciate
Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
Vernon Howard
History
You
Face
Carefully
Drama
Tell
See
Entire
Facial
Habit
Study
Make
Owner
Human
Your
Expressions
Profitable
Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.
Vernon Howard
You
Evil
Power
Fall
Down
Think
Worship
Absolute
Make
Endless
Wants
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
Vernon Howard
Exactly
Where
Chosen
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Vernon Howard
Freedom
Kingdom
Touched
Attacks
Clearly
Cannot
Realize
Inner
Exterior
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
Vernon Howard
You
Think
Right Road
More
Road
Know
Permanently
Than
Anything
Right
Last
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
Vernon Howard
Truth
Truth Is
Matter
Personal
Viewpoint
Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.
Vernon Howard
You
Yourself
Better
Power
Healthy
Sense
Live
Mark
State
Relations
Way
Seek
Gives
Individual
Liking
Mastering
Well-Adjusted
Another
Another Way
Enables
His
Provides
Accomplishment
Mature
Personal
Human
Reason
Fully
Human Relations
Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.
Vernon Howard
Eyes
Problem
Understanding
Before
See
Higher
Higher Level
Learn
Then
Your
Level
Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
Vernon Howard
Truth
Acceptance
Compromises
Never
Invites
Your
Awaits
When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
Vernon Howard
You
Hurt
Power
Young
Sense
Pang
Way
Right Way
Ability
Take
Feel
Insult
Heartache
Child
Blow
Any
Much
Reasoning
Right
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