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Self Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
- F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back…
- The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on…
- Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our…
- When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
- Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
- When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest…
- We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We…
- The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
- When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and…
- It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The…
- What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
- Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to…
- 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. Amateurs don't show…
- Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline,…
- If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit…
- I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life…
- For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self…
- Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to…
- Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden