Paulo Coelho Quotes

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

I think there are things you can do to toughen yourself up.

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.

I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

You are constantly battling against your own weaknesses to make a good performence.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of difficulty. What is true success in life? True success means winning in your battle with yourself. Those who persist in the pursuit of their dreams, no matter what the hurdles, are winners in life, for they have won over their weaknesses.

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.

I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.

I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn't think I was capable of.

I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about.

You need to fight in order to count. Don't be afraid to believe the impossible and then fight with yourself to ameliorate yourself. Do it. Believe in yourself. Let a good seed be a good seed now, and then we'll have a good tree.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.