Steven Pressfield Quotes

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

You shape your own destiny.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.

We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.