Paulo Coelho Quotes

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.

I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

I want people to really be inspired, to believe they can do whatever they want.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I'm living, breathing proof that you can be anything you want to be.

It shouldn't matter what you're into, how you look - you can achieve whatever you aspire to.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.

Today, I embrace my potential to be, do, and have whatever I can dream.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.