Simon Sinek Quotes

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Simon Sinek

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• Winning
• Succeed
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• Desire is the very essence of man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Wanted

• 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.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Always
  • Win
  • Succeed

• 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.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • Desire
  • Do The Right Thing

• 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.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lost

• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Goals
  • Succeed

• 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.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • World
  • Faith
  • Patience

• I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Done
  • Winning
  • Lottery

• 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.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Winning
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Power
  • Happy

• To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Desire
  • Intelligent

• 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?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Power
  • Free
  • Desire

• From some, the light was scarcely more than a gloom:From some, a dazzling desire.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Light
  • Desire

• 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.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Winning

• I believe whenever you're winning and doing the right thing, you're stats will be fine, and everything else will come in place.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Believe
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Power
  • Desire

• Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • God
  • Men
  • Sometimes

• Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Friends

• Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Time
  • Country
  • True

• There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . .

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Man
  • Woman

• To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Desire
  • Winning
  • Succeed