Paulo Coelho Quotes

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

Hope keeps you alive.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

There have been many times in my life when I felt like I'd never pick up the pieces, but God has always given me the power to do it.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.