Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

A Warrior often loses heart.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion.

It was what God had taught me growing up that helped me overcome my fear and get back on the board. 'Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go' (Joshua 1:9).

If you cant be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation.

Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.

I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

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

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.