Simon Sinek Quotes

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.

AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.

If the world is to be put together it will not be done by large organizations. It will be done by millions of small organizations…. Participation: That’s what is going to save the human race.

Movements aren’t built on leadership but on the movement itself — of individuals taking that first step from inertia to action, as if passing through a doorway

I want to succeed, but I want to make an impact in the people's lives that I'm around. So that means teammates, fans, coaches, staff, everybody.

A small group of motivated citizens can potentially have as much influence as a lobby group spending millions of dollars.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.

What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.