Paulo Coelho Quotes

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Being fearless means busting down those walls of fear and being who you are, not who someone else thinks you are. People like to put others in a box and tell them what they can and cannot do or who they can and cannot be. No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.

Just to stay focused on my path and not the path that other people or media want to put me in. Just to stay focused on my vision, because I put out what I want people to know about me. Everything else is what the media puts out.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

I want to be more myself. Sometimes it takes awhile to find your voice.

I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Never forget who you are, little star.