"The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero……" — Steven Pressfield

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

— Steven Pressfield

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187 Quotes by Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield has 187 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the…
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul,…
The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when…
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to…
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is…
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it,…
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up…
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it…
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be…
The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

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More Hero Quotes

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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but… — Arthur Ashe
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
I'm bad at picking heroes. — Margaret Atwood
No hero is mortal till he dies. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. — Kevin Bacon
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long… — John Adams
Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's… — Joe Barton
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
What is a society without a heroic dimension? — Jean Baudrillard
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. — Felix Baumgartner

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