Motivational Quotes

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"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

"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

"What is to give light must endure burning."

Viktor Frankl

"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."

Viktor Frankl

"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

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

"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."

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

"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."

Viktor Frankl

"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. "

Viktor Frankl

"The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance."

Viktor Frankl

"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. "

Viktor Frankl