Russell Simmons Quotes

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

It was such a relief to win. You tell yourself you can do it, but until you do you don't know for sure. And I found out I can do it by doing what I do, not what others do.