Quote

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

Vernon Howard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
Author
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Wrong
Must
Angrily
Defended
Deceived
False
Protect
Path
Choices

More quotes by Vernon Howard

Image
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
Vernon Howard
Image
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
Vernon Howard
Image
Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
Vernon Howard
Image
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception hence his delusion.
Vernon Howard
Image
We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
Vernon Howard
Image
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
Vernon Howard
Image
Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
Vernon Howard
Image
You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
Vernon Howard
Image
If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
Vernon Howard
Image
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
Image
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
Vernon Howard
Image
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
Vernon Howard
Image
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
Vernon Howard
Image
Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.
Vernon Howard
Image
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
Vernon Howard
Image
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
Vernon Howard
Image
Genuine effort is success.
Vernon Howard
Image
A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
Vernon Howard
Image
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Vernon Howard
Image
Who asks a king for a penny?
Vernon Howard