Simon Sinek Quotes

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

There are a lot of famous people who started out with us and became stars and I wouldn't swap my life with theirs for one second.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.