Vernon Howard

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

Vernon Howard

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

Vernon Howard

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

Vernon Howard

It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten – and sometimes destroy – mankind’s peace and prosperity.

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

Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

Vernon Howard

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

Vernon Howard

One of society’s absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

Vernon Howard

Problems are cured by facing their cause.

Vernon Howard

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

Vernon Howard