Terry McMillan Quotes

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

No one can keep you down but yourself

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Put your future in good hands. Your own.

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us - it's the spirit within us.

I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. ... When it was fashionable to say, "May the Force be with you," I always said, "Force yourself." ... I'll say again then, "The Force is within you. Force yourself."

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

I am not driven.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.