Paulo Coelho Quotes

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.

I’m in politics to speak up for a Canada that takes risks, that stands up for what’s right. A Canada that leads.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

If you want change, and you want things to get better across the country, there's different ways to go about it.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

You can't lead without taking risk.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.