Quotes About Determination

I am what I am because I have made myself so.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

You don't run away from problems, you run towards solutions.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.

Belief Initiates and guides action— Or it does nothing.

Your desires,           Whether or not you achieve them           Will determine who you become.

His mistake was in seeing her as a young girl. She was already a missile, armed and targeted.

The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

Frankly, it never occurred to me that I needed someone who looked like me to show me the way. I was ignorant and arrogant and persistent and the writing left me no choice at all."9

We can, Each of us, Do the impossible As long as we can convince ourselves That it has been done before.

When I was older, I decided that getting a rejection slip was like being told your child was ugly. You got mad and didn't believe a word of it. Besides, look at all the really ugly literary children out there in the world being published and doing fine!

You want to know how moral she is?" His tone made me frown. "What do you mean?" "If she chases me any harder, she and I will wind up playing a scene from that Bible she reads. The scene between Potiphar's wife and Joseph.

It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

Human purpose isn't what you say it is or what I say it is. It's what your biology says it is--what your genes say it is.

Just struggling with my own perversity.

All prayers are to Self And, in one way or another, All prayers are answered. Pray, But beware. Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become.

We do what we do, Lilith.

For myself …In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Belief will not save you. Only actions Guided and shaped By belief and knowledge Will save you. Belief Initiates and guides action— Or it does nothing.