Quotes by Austrian Authors - Page 3

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder
Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder
One must not cheat anybody not even the world of one's triumph.
Franz Kafka
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.
Konrad Lorenz
After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
Adolf Hitler
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
Sigmund Freud
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Alfred Adler
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.
Vicki Baum
After the verb "to Love " "to Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Bertha von Suttner
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
Viktor Frankl
Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Theodor Reik
No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy
Franz Kafka
The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
Sigmund Freud
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Know what you want to do-then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
In meeting again after a separation acquaintances ask after our outward life friends after our inner life.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus
Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.
Moritz Saphir
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud
For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.
Ingeborg Bachmann
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Sigmund Freud
To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oscar Homolka
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.
Karl Kraus
Doubt breeds doubt.
Franz Grillparzer
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us something unknown.
Rainer Maria Rilke
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
Bruno Bettelheim
Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
When making a decision of minor importance I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters however such as the choice of a mate or a profession the decision should come from the unconscious from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life we should be governed I think by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Sigmund Freud
The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor Frankl
Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
Sigmund Freud
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
Marie Antoinette
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity never of the correctness of a belief.
Arthur Schnitzler
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Peter F Drucker
Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.
Sigmund Freud
Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.
Rainer Maria Rilke
You build on cost and you borrow on value.
Paul Reichmann
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
Peter Drucker
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Peter Drucker