Simon Sinek Quotes

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.

Miss India actually made me feel small.

My whole life, I've felt like I've always had to prove myself. It's never been easy, as easy as others who are in my position have had it.

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

I don't think I'm successful.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.