Paulo Coelho Quotes

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.

Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world?

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.