Steven Pressfield Quotes

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

I fear everyone. But I play without fear.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally.