Paulo Coelho Quotes

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.

Dont worry, Roza, I'm not afraid. I'll take whatever heat they give me over being with you. It's worth it.

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

To save all we must risk all.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I am always in front, and in time of battle am never behind.

I do not wish to be melodramatic, but at some point I have to say it. If something bad should happen to me, I want you to know that my commitment to what I am doing has been freely contracted, with the joy of knowing that this is precisely what I should be doing at this moment. Fear is constantly present in each one of us, because none of us are movie heroes. But we refuse to accept that fear must condition our actions and prevent us from doing what with a cool head and fervent heart we understand should be done.

Do not dare not to dare.

Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

Be not afraid of greatness.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

A Warrior often loses heart.