Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled life until they recognize this mission and dedicate their life to pursuing it.

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

I have to say, I feel a weird sort of calling in filmmaking that I didn't feel with other things. I feel like there are things in life you want to do, and then things you are called to do, and hopefully you can allow yourself to want to do whatever you're called to do.

Everybody has a purpose.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

I've found my purpose in life, definitely.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

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

Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.