Eric Greitens Quotes

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

I know who I am, and I know what my future holds.

Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time.

The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

Knowing who you are is confidence.

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.