Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

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

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.