542 Quotes by Steven Pressfield

The Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor. All the warrior can give is his life; all the athlete can do is leave everything on the field.

Call it overstatement but I’ll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

Our team has zero; has he got Close Air Support, drones, anything?

We master the technique of our jobs.

On our hero’s journey, we see, we experience, we suffer. We learn. On our hero’s journey, we acquire a history that is ours alone. It’s a secret history, a private history, a personal history. No one has it but us. No one knows it but us. This secret history is the most valuable possession we hold, or ever will hold. We will draw upon it for the rest of our lives.

The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind.

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies.

Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish – that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others something that’s actually good.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery.