A Quote by Paulo Coelho

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Paulo Coelho

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Challenges Curiosity Defeats Fight Good Good Fight Interests Life Life Is Me Victories

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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian - Novelist
Born: August 24, 1947

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

Fedor Emelianenko

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.

Gianluigi Buffon

The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.

Paulo Coelho

It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

Frederick Lenz

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

Haruki Murakami

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

Gianluigi Buffon

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Matthew Thomas

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

Che Guevara

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.

Ze Frank

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Bjorn Borg

My family is important to me. They have always been close to me during my career, victories and defeats, and the most difficult moments.

Felipe Massa

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Hugh Prather

My whole career, the ups, the downs, the victories, the defeats, the lessons I've learned and kept rolling, that's what's made me the fighter I am today.

Dustin Poirier

I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.