Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription: Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Decide what you want out of a situation. Always have something ahead of you to “look forward to” — to work for and hope for.

The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

A goal is the basic unit of life design.

The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.