Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Because a warrior carries helmet and breastplate for his own protection, but his shield for the safety of the whole line.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. — Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The warrior culture, on the other hand, values cohesion and obedience. The soldier or sailor is not free to do whatever he… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fought in your… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“In their minds it is the mark of an ill-prepared and amateur army to rely in the moments before battle on what… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“This, I realized now watching Dienekes rally and tend to his men, was the role of the officer: to prevent those under… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself or… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“I don't need to read nothing,' said the New Zealander. 'I was there.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
