Steven Pressfield Quotes

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person's neck that says 'Make me feel important.

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

I'm not the kind of guy that really thinks I'm a celebrity or feels that I'm important or anything like that.

Meet the most important living person! That person is you.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.