"For what can be more noble than to……" — Steven Pressfield
"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 within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too."
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187 Quotes by Steven Pressfield
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Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
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F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it…
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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