Steven Pressfield

“Good. Then we will fight in the shade”

— Steven Pressfield

“...fear doesn't go away.”

— Steven Pressfield

Start before you’re ready.

— Steven Pressfield

“Resistance has no conscience.”

— Steven Pressfield

“Fear saps passion.”

— Steven Pressfield

“The Muse honors the working stiff.”

— Steven Pressfield

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

— Steven Pressfield

“Don’t prepare. Begin.”

— Steven Pressfield

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

— Steven Pressfield

“Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign.”

— Steven Pressfield

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

— Steven Pressfield

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

— Steven Pressfield

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

— Steven Pressfield

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

— Steven Pressfield

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

— Steven Pressfield

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

— Steven Pressfield

“My role-options in life and career, I realized, were not limited to Businessman, Athlete, and Boneheaded Patriot.”

— Steven Pressfield

“Fear conquers fear. This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of…

— Steven Pressfield

“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.”

— Steven Pressfield

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it.…

— Steven Pressfield

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

— Steven Pressfield

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

— Steven Pressfield

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

— Steven Pressfield

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

— Steven Pressfield

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He…

— Steven Pressfield

“The habits and addictions of the amateur are conscious or unconscious self-inflicted wounds. Their payoff is incapacity. When we take our M1903…

— Steven Pressfield

As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've…

— Steven Pressfield

The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength…

— Steven Pressfield

“Resistance knows that the more psychic energy we expend dredging and re-dredging the tired, boring injustices of our personal lives, the less…

— Steven Pressfield

“There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's…

— Steven Pressfield

“Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in…

— Steven Pressfield

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits.…

— Steven Pressfield

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance.…

— Steven Pressfield

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs.…

— Steven Pressfield

Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for…

— Steven Pressfield

When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his…

— Steven Pressfield

“Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or…

— Steven Pressfield

The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's…

— Steven Pressfield

These scars on my body,” Alexander declared, “were got for you, my brothers. Every wound, as you see, is in the front.…

— Steven Pressfield

“Reći ću Njegovom Veličanstvu što je kralj.Kralj ne boravi u svome šatoru dok njegovi ljudi krvare i ginu na ratištu.Kralj ne objeduje…

— Steven Pressfield