Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Values are rooted in a basic optimism about life and a faith in free will.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

The important thing to remember is you control you. Nothing else can control you.

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

It is your choice to be happy. Make up your mind to enjoy this day, to have a blessed, prosperous, victorious year. You may have some setbacks and your circumstances may change, but don't let that change your mind. Keep it set on happiness.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.