Simon Sinek Quotes

Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit.

Simon Sinek

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• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Agreed
  • Fable

• I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Great
  • Always
  • Thought

• I always wanted pink hair.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Pink

• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Want

• Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Princess

• We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comparison

• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Equal

• Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Some People

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Chance
  • Medal
  • Rio

• It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Me
  • Difficult

• I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Morning
  • Car
  • Driving

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • You
  • Name
  • Will

• Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Impact
  • Addiction
  • Often

• When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Black

• I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Light

• I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

  

  Dory Previn
  • God
  • Fear
  • Jesus

• Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Death
  • Pain
  • End

• A book is a machine to think with.

  

  I. A. Richards
  • Book

• If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Death
  • Friend
  • Broken

• When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.

  

  William Bell
  • School
  • Sometimes
  • Military

• Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Sometimes
  • Choices
  • Protect