Simon Sinek Quotes

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.

I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.

I wanted my kids to be able to look at their mom and be like, 'She can take care of herself.'

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

I know how to look after myself.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

You should never need a guy to make you feel complete.

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

'Sexy' is being independent, being confident and having fun.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.