Charisma Carpenter Quotes

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

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

Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

You have incredible lives ahead of you. You have incredible things that you can accomplish. If you feel that, you will have an amazing life. Do not let anything build a wall too high for you to get over. And I know that might seem very cliche, but I've had alot of friends who had hurt themselves. And when you're younger, a lot of that stuff is so temporary. You can get through it. You're stronger than you think. You'll ALWAYS be stronger than you think. Feel with your heart and do what you want.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

If someone is trying to stop you from enjoying your life by impeding on yours, and telling you that your life is not the right way, then by all means, I'm the first one to say, "Fight for your rights, fight for who you are and for what you believe in." But you better be the stronger person. Just be aware and attentive to everything that's happening in life and know that there are gonna be people that are going to stop you and going to enjoy stopping you from getting to your goals. But just continue to be strong and outwit them.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

A Marathon is not about running, it is about salvation. We spend so much of our lives doubting ourselves, thinking we're not good enough, not strong enough, not made of the right stuff. The Marathon is an opportunity for redemption. "Opportunity," because the outcome is uncertain. "Opportunity," because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen; only you can turn your farfetched dream into a reality.

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

I feel like through martial arts I'm able to face my fears head on. It makes me not run away from challenges in life. I'm able to transfer my martial arts training over to other challenges. To be able to conquer your fears is the best feeling in the world.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

I am manageable. I, you know, it'll suffice I think. No, no, I feel pretty good. I trained for a long time and I got really cool, like I was doing jumps. It got like, I felt really good, but then when I got out on gravel and fake snow and - it just kind of all went downhill. But I think it's still okay.

I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

I think every player hits a little bit of doubt. But if you are strong, you are supposed to be strong mentally because that's our job and you know what you can do. So you are like, 'A'ight cool, I'ma be all right. I'm going to figure this out.'

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

I knew no matter how good I did, no matter everything that I pushed for, there's always gonna be some type of doubt. Some people want to put limitations on what I can do.

Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.

Sometimes things don't go exactly as you'd wish. You have to be mentally strong to overcome those moments.

I have a lot to say about my confidence, my fears, my adversaries, my ambitions, my goals and failures.