Simon Sinek Quotes

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

We all act like we know everything in life, but nobody really does. That's what I want people to realize. For me, I know that I'm the same person. Nothing has changed. My family and friends know that.

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I am not sure that I can make the epigrams that you are hunting for. The truth is you have a pretty old horse to run and you’ve got to take me as I am.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.

I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

I don't think it's healthy to buy into hype in any form, whether it's positive or negative. You have to exist in yourself and just move on with life.

You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.

At some point, we all reach that moment where it's such a waste of energy to act as if you know things that you really don't. It's really kind of liberating to be okay with that.