Simon Sinek Quotes

I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Being humbled is a good thing.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

Learn how to humble yourself, and be able to take advice and not feel like you know everything.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

I feel the first ten years of my career I really didn't care what the director said because I felt so arrogant. I was so certain about what should happen. But then I became a good listener.

Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, 'Just calm down.'

Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.