Russell Simmons Quotes

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

We'll succeed unless we quit.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

The world belongs to those who persevere.

I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

I will work when failures seek rest.