Erich Segal Quotes

I just surprise myself every day.

I understand my own strengths.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

I think I can be spiritual, and I can feel that I want to live well, I want to do things that I'm proud of, and I think that's important. Now, do I need a church to tell me that? Actually, no, I don't.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.