I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Quote by Paulo Coelho
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
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Paulo Coelho Quotes
- Music for me, it demands full concentration.
- In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
- If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
- I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
- Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
- The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
- I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Best Quotes
- I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
- The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
- The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
- If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
- We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
- All great peoples are conservative.
- Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
- Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.