Eric Weddle Quotes

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

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.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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.

My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.

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

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

People should ask themselves why is it that they want to act.

I think if the desire to improve what I do starts to plateau then what's the point.

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

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.