Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.