Paulo Coelho Quotes

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

Work hard at doing what you feel is right. Don't be scared!

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about. [...] You've always got to stick with whatever you're into because you're day is going to come. You're day is destined. If you walk away from that, whether it be from fear or whether you're just giving up. [...] The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

I'm not afraid to take a step and if I fall, I fall. I pick myself up and move on. If we can all learn one thing in life, it's don't be afraid to take on something that you believe you're capable of achieving.

Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man