Paulo Coelho Quotes

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

You're going to lose points and gain points throughout the year.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

I don't like working on stuff unless it's going to make an impact. I want people to talk about this and remember it. If I finally get my crack at Spider-Man and then blow it, ugh. I will happily walk in front of a bus to sell more copies after I finish.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

If your vision dies with you, you failed.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity

Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

What's wrong with being number two?

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.