Paulo Coelho Quotes

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

I made a big mistake of my life.

You can do something almost any minutes that will ruin you, no matter how good you have been.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

I haven’t had a gaffe or something that I’ve done that has caused me to fall in the polls.

When we make mistakes they call it evil

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it.

I'm paying for a mistake I made

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.