Paulo Coelho Quotes

Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing they may never return. For them it is worth it - because in the very risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.

We all love challenges.

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

Outside of my family, I was always inspired by true heroic stories of leadership and survival. For example, the story of the Shackleton expedition, when their ship became lodged in the Antarctic ice pack while exploring.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I accept any challenge, so challenge me

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

What is life, but one long risk?