Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

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.

The meaning of life is life.

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

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

The only person who takes the full responsibility why I leave Man United is myself. I am the one to make the choice.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.