Paulo Coelho Quotes

Some people have more guts than brains.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

You can't test courage cautiously.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

Choose bravery but not bravado.

There is always safety in valor.

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

Calculation never made a hero.

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.

I would never be fearful of any character.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.