“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”

— Paulo Coelho

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Introduction, p. xi.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Context: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

“We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it’s time to get up.”

Malcolm Azania book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain

Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 9 “Paranoia: It Can Destroy Ya” (p. 258)