Victor Frankl is a famous Austrian neurologist and author. He has lived a very difficult life and still managed to thrive in his life and become successful. He has made many contributions to the field of neurology and also has written some inspiring words for people. Let’s take a look at some of Viktor Frankl Quotes which might inspire and motivate you.
Inspirational Viktor Frankl Quotes
Faith is trust in ultimate meaning. Viktor Frankl
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones. Viktor Frankl
The last freedom is choosing your attitude. Viktor Frankl
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists. Viktor Frankl
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer… his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden. Viktor Frankl
Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate. Viktor Frankl
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. Viktor Frankl
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement. Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl Famous Quotes
I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done. Viktor Frankl
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. Viktor Frankl
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. Viktor Frank
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honorable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. Viktor Frankl
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Viktor Frankl
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’ Viktor Frankl
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to ‘be happy.’ But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to ‘be happy.’ Viktor Frankl
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. Viktor Frankl
Each man is questioned by life, and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life, he can only respond by being responsible. Viktor Frankl
Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake. Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl Best Quotes
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor Frankl
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. Viktor Frankl
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. Viktor Frankl
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. Viktor Frankl
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. Viktor Frankl
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. Viktor Frankl
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning. Viktor Frankl
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself – be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. Viktor Frankl
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. Viktor Frankl
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl Quotes On Hope
Evermore people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Viktor Frankl
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. Viktor Frankl
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Viktor Frankl
The more one forgets himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is. Viktor Frankl
If you call ‘religious’ a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really. Viktor Frankl
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life. Viktor Frankl
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. Viktor Frankl
When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in. Viktor Frankl
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist’s role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him. Viktor Frankl
Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient’s being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others. Viktor Frankl