Simon Sinek Quotes

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

Simon Sinek

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• My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Me
  • Say

• I want to do stories that inspire people.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Want
  • Inspire

• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

  

  Dan Benishek
  • Enough
  • Debt
  • Arrogance

• I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Inspired

• I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Me
  • Inspire

• I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Important
  • Help

• My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Person
  • Inspire

• I want to inspire, and be inspired.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Inspire

• My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Music
  • Inspire
  • Define

• There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Arrogance
  • Saver

• Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Kind
  • Like

• When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.

  

  Jay-Z
  • World
  • Kids
  • History

• I'm used to being behind a camera. That's much more natural for me. But if my life can inspire people, that's what I have to do. My idea is to be of service.

  

  Zana Briski
  • People
  • Life
  • Ideas

• I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Way
  • Feel
  • New York

• Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Honor
  • Arrogance
  • Solicitation

• I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Hope
  • Inspire
  • Idealism

• My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

  

  William Shatner
  • Understanding
  • Fans
  • Stars

• What intrigued me about him was his intelligence, his humor. I'd been all over the world. I had started a career. At that point, I had sort of committed myself to not committing. I didn't want to have to raise a husband, but he was so sophisticated and so funny.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Husband
  • Humor
  • Intelligence

• Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Inspire
  • Arrogance