Paulo Coelho Quotes

A Warrior often loses heart.

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

It's the good loser who finally loses out.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority..

The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.

I don't like losing at anything, but it's not the end of the world if you beat me.

If you are a gladiator, a fighter in this sport, in life you can be the same.

The biggest players I've seen are the ones that take the wins well - don't get carried away with them - but the defeats really hurt.

I've knocked out a lot of people so I'm not going to cry about being stopped, it's part of the game and I can accept that.

Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting them as they really are.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.