Paulo Coelho Quotes

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Without hope we are lost.

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Keep hope alive!

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Hope will never be silent.

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; in enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not abandon it to his enemy.

Hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design

Hope is the poor man's bread.

We cannot give up hope. It's our most important gift.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

Hope keeps us going.

What ultimately makes 'The Wire' uplifting amid the heartbreak it conveys is its embodiment of a spirit that Barack Obama calls 'the audacity of hope.' It is filled with characters who should quit but don't, not only the boys themselves but teachers, cops, ex-cops, and ex-cons who lose their hearts to them.

When you write about hope, don't make it sappy; make it cool, make it adaptable.

Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.