Paulo Coelho Quotes

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

Some of the best things you do are the things you don't do.

Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength!

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.