Simon Sinek Quotes

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.

The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.

I want people to have less me.

It's not about you. It's about them.

It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.