Paulo Coelho Quotes

There are so many people telling you no, but if you love what you do, no one can stop you.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Those who love each other shall become invincible.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Never give up on something you love

The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

It's always too early to quit.

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

I'm a fighter. I'm a lover.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

The only way round is through.

Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.