Simon Sinek Quotes

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's a big benefit in and of itself.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

People think I'm angry and they're right. There's a lot to be angry about. But I'm also empathetic and ambitious and hopeful and happy at times.

If you're with a close friend, your anger may raise his blood pressure as well as your own, whereas loving feelings may lower blood pressure in both of you.

I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.

As you get little pockets of success, then suddenly the light bulbs go on in everyone's head, and more leaders get more confident and make more, bigger decisions, and customers respond well, and it becomes a bit of a flywheel.

I like happiness, and when people try to destroy that, it winds me up.

One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.

Some people play best when they're frustrated and mad. I play my best when I'm happy. I really, truly do.

When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

Smiles are everywhere, and smiles can spread. You can smile to someone, and they'll smile to another person, and it goes on and on and on.

You have to address anger, fear, and then to think about what the alternatives are: hope, faith, a certain kind of brotherly love. And then you have to set yourself to cultivate those.

Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

It eats at me. And if it eats at me, I'm going to make sure it eats at (my team).

Do good, feel good; feel good, do good.

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.