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Let us strive hardily for success even if by so doing we risk failure, spurning the poorer souls of small endeavor who know neither failure nor success.
There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.
If a man knows the wherefore of his existence, then the manner of it can take care of itself.
Wrongly attributed
Usually quoted as Frankl's own: he who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Frankl never claimed it. He quotes Nietzsche in Man's Search for Meaning, and the line is Nietzsche's, from Twilight of the Idols in 1888. The familiar English wording matches no published translation of the period; Ludovici's 1911 rendering is the one above.
Extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
If you want a thing done, do it yourself.
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
If we would promise we must put ourselves in a position to perform our promise.
There are some national questions in the solution of which patriotism should exclude partisanship.
Nature does not give us our livelihood gratis; we must win it by toil of some sort or degree.