Simon Sinek Quotes
To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
Quotes to Explore
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that's them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it.
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For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
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Is it not better to use what is in thy power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not in thy power?
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From some, the light was scarcely more than a gloom:From some, a dazzling desire.
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.
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I believe whenever you're winning and doing the right thing, you're stats will be fine, and everything else will come in place.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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You know how women have this clock when they want to have a baby? I had this clock where I wanted to win a national award by thirty, be at a big press by thirty-five. I was always working with these self-driven goals.
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I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.
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I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.
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I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.
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To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
