Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
Vernon Howard
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
Author
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Whenever
Instead
Stupid
Encountering
Else
Troublesome
Anything
Rude
Persons
Identify
Person
Cruel
Like
Frightened
More quotes by Vernon Howard
To change what you get you must change who you are.
Vernon Howard
Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
Vernon Howard
You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
Vernon Howard
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
Vernon Howard
One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
Vernon Howard
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
Vernon Howard
It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
Vernon Howard
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything it's the understanding of something.
Vernon Howard
Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
Vernon Howard
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
Vernon Howard
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
Vernon Howard
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
Vernon Howard
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
Vernon Howard
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
Vernon Howard
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
Vernon Howard
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
Vernon Howard
You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
Vernon Howard
You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.
Vernon Howard