George Weinberg Quotes

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.

My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

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.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

What you are comes to you.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.

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.

Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

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.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.