Paulo Coelho Quotes

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.

All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.

Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is needed. It is an insult to pray.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

You are personally responsible for everything in your life, once you become aware that you are personally responsible for everything in your life.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.