Steven Pressfield Quotes

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway.

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

Every time I bomb out, I have to come back. I have a feeling after a bad race that my next one will be good.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

I know it sounds cliche, but you have to believe in yourself because there's going to be moments that no one else does.

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

We have to succeed, so we will.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

I don't look to the negative people because the only people who ever tell you that you can't do something are the ones who haven't done it themselves... the ones who failed.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

Just believe in what you're doing, and keep doing it.

Something I've learned is that when people tell me I can't do something, I immediately wonder why and then think it through. It only makes me more motivated to prove them wrong.

I feel that I can face any challenge.

When I hear people say that they don't think that I can do something or they don't think I belong somewhere, that's all it takes for me to prove them wrong, and it's motivation.

I never listened to people who said I wasn't going to make it.

Every time my capability as an actor would be questioned, I would put in double the effort.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.