Simon Sinek Quotes

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.

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.

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

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.

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

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

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

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Feel the needs of others more than your own.

Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't help but want to be near them. They help them; they work with them. That's what love is all about. It starts with your heart and radiates out.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.