Quotes About Attitude

Such people forgot that often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.

we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering

What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

If one cannot change a situation that causes his suffering, he can still choose his attitude.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

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

Most important, he realized that, no matter what happened, he retained the freedom to choose how to respond to his suffering.

I could not change his fate; I could not revive his wife. But in that moment I did succeed in changing his attitude toward his unalterable fate inasmuch as from that time on he could at least see a meaning in his suffering.

Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.

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. – Viktor Frankl

sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless. Naturally only a few people were capable

Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.

Such people forgot that often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence.

but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions. Our

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Una vida activa cumple con la finalidad de brindar al hombre la posibilidad de desempeñar un trabajo que le proporciona valores creativos; una vida contemplativa también le concede la posibilidad de hallar la plenitud al experimentar la belleza, el arte o la naturaleza. Pero también atesora sentido una vida exenta de creación o contemplación, que solo admite una única capacidad de respuesta: la actitud de mantenerse erguido ante su inexorable destino

they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There is a scene

everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it.

Cuando un hombre descubre que su destino es sufrir, ha de aceptar dicho sufrimiento, pues ésa es su sola y única tarea. Ha de reconocer el hecho de que, incluso sufriendo, él es único y está solo en el universo. Nadie puede redimirle de su sufrimiento ni sufrir en su lugar. Su única oportunidad reside en la actitud que adopte al soportar su carga.

there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.