Paulo Coelho Quotes

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

I have worked hard to get where I am.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

I want to win. For myself first. And for all those people who stuck with me and understood.

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

I want to follow my dreams. I want to make sure that I put myself first and accomplish what I need to accomplish.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.

I want to win medals for myself.

You've got to do what's best for you and what you want to accomplish in your career.

My path might not be the same as everyone else's, but I had to find a way. It's not by chance. It's not by coincidence. It's because I work hard for it... and I have to continue that to be successful.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.

The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.