Paulo Coelho Quotes

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

The man who runs may fight again.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Never give up, and never give in.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.

I've learned that if I can convince myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, then I can run as far as I want to.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

If you're trying to avoid one move that you don't think is going to work out, don't then settle for a different move that maybe doesn't check all the boxes. Be true to the philosophy and understand the bigger picture. There's always another day to fight.

To stay in the game, you have to stay in the game.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.