Vernon Howard Quotes

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

I don't like rules.

I don't take well to rules.

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of my life.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

Freedom is relative.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.