Paulo Coelho Quotes

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.

It's one thing to talk the talk; it's another thing to walk after getting whacked with a coconut.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

Once I failed in cricket, I joined a law course, but when it also did not work out, it was another setback. When you get back-to-back failures, you automatically start to work harder in life.

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'

You either make dust or eat dust.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

If you fall then that's not all... if you wish to be down then stay down... if you wish to be up then get up.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

I never would've tried YouTube if I hadn't had so many doors slammed in my face.

Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

Being brave is what led to three rejections from Yale Law School before being accepted. It led to losing my 2010 race for U.S. Congress, and another failed bid for public office in 2013, this time for public advocate of New York City.

You go through stuff, and you keep going.

I tell people that the best thing that can ever happen to you is getting fired, and you can either sink or swim, and I swam like hell. The reason why I swam the way I swam was because there was nothing else for me.

Our troubles keep us going.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.