Paulo Coelho Quotes

That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.

It was what God had taught me growing up that helped me overcome my fear and get back on the board. 'Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go' (Joshua 1:9).

The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

I think I learned I'm braver than I think I am.

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

I find that complete trust and subsequent courage galvanizing and inspiring.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back