Sylvia Day Quotes

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

I am obstinate and I will not give in.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

I was always tenacious.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

You can't count me out.

I won't let anything stop me.

I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'

Ain't nothing going to hold me back.

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

I think I'm determined. And I think if you're determined, you're right. Your behavior is exactly the same when you're stubborn, except then you're wrong. And so, there's times when I'm wrong, and I'd say, "Well, you were the dark side of determined." But I think determination, you know, it's like have an idea, think about the idea, the risks involved. What does it take to get from here to there? And then once you make the choice, you just keep going.

Never give in, never give in, never give in.

I am deaf to the word 'no'.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.