Paulo Coelho Quotes

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

I only really work when I want to.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Motives are often more important than actions

What you don't do is as important as what you do.

People are decisions and actions.

If I'm running on my own, no one's holding me accountable, so I will stop and walk.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?