Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

It is what we do with our lives that counts.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.

Taking chances on opportunities, even if they aren't right for you, gives you a clearer picture of where you want to go with your life and career.

How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It's your choice.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would like to impact? Start on those and you can change the world. Maybe you can only make your neighborhood a little bit better, or make someone's life a little bit better. Isn't that the kind of purpose?

Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on.

Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.

Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.

Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.