542 Quotes by Steven Pressfield

Instead we are tapped into an unquenchable, undepletable, inexhaustible source of wisdom, consciousness, companionship. Yeah, we lose friends. But we find friends too, in places we never thought to look. And they’re better friends, truer friends. And we’re better and truer to them.

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own “I’m not worthy” mind-set.

Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.

The linebacker and the Army Ranger go into action as part of a team. But the artist and the entrepreneur enter combat alone. I take my hat off to every man or woman who does this.

When you’re a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.

The most highly cultured mother gives birth sweating and dislocated and cursing like a sailor. That’s the place we inhabit as artists and innovators. It’s the place we must become comfortable with.

We’re wrong if we think we’re the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

We slew three hundred of them,” replied Artemisia, “and it took two million of us to do it.” These.