Motivational Quotes: Viktor Frankl

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"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."

Viktor Frankl

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

Viktor Frankl

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."

Viktor Frankl

"What is to give light must endure burning."

Viktor Frankl

"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."

Viktor Frankl

"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

Viktor Frankl

"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."

Viktor Frankl

"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."

Viktor Frankl

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."

Viktor Frankl

"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."

Viktor Frankl

"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. "

Viktor Frankl

"The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance."

Viktor Frankl

"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. "

Viktor Frankl

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

Viktor Frankl

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."

Viktor Frankl

"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue."

Viktor Frankl

"By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system."

Viktor Frankl

"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life."

Viktor Frankl

"Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it."

Viktor Frankl