Vernon Howard Quotes

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Vernon Howard

Profession : Author

Birth : March 16, 1918

Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.

Vernon Howard

Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplishments far beyond that which he previously dreamed possible.

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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.

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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

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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.

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You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

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In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

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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.

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The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.

Vernon Howard