Michelle Waterson Quotes

When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

I have overcome most of my fears.

Everything we run away from has power over us;everything we go through,we conquer.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.

I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.

'Dream' is about having fears and doing your best to embrace them no matter how strenuous the grip is.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.

Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.