Paulo Coelho

Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot in front of the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

No matter where you are in life, you’ll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.