Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

There is nothing that anyone can stop you from doing if you really want.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

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

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I am not driven.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

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

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

I choose to live, not just exist.

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.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.