I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Success often starts with serendipity but requires perseverance to withstand challenges.
This quote by Paulo Coelho reflects the journey of pursuing goals, indicating that while initial attempts may be fortunate and easy, the ultimate path to success involves significant trials and tests. It emphasizes the importance of resilience and the reality that true achievement is often hard-won, requiring effort and endurance after the initial thrills of success fade away.
Themes
SuccessPerseveranceChallengesTestsBeginner'S Luck
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles on the path to success.
More from Paulo Coelho
All quotes →Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
Paulo CoelhoRead
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
Paulo CoelhoRead
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Paulo CoelhoRead
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Similar quotes
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
Gloria SteinemRead
I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
Robert FrostRead
Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
Alan WattsRead
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara KingsolverRead
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. SayersRead