Paulo Coelho Quotes

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

People don't live a good life when they take themselves too seriously, because they're always concerned about what everybody else thinks.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

Care less about what other people think because at the end of the day, everyone is so worried about themselves & how they are coming across that nobody is actually judging as much as y'all think they are.

There are no men like me. There's only me

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to plan things more. You end up judging yourself more, what looks good and what doesn't.

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

I don't want to sound egotistical, but I'm egotistical to an extent.