Paulo Coelho Quotes

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.

Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

You shape your own destiny.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

I do tend to be a leader in situations in my own life.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

If I ever stop acting, I'd like to be the author of that decision.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

You can choose a direction that will take you into something that isn't going to take you where you want to go, or you can choose another direction which is down the right pathway.