Steven Pressfield Quotes

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

We always make so many excuses for ourselves - 'I'm so busy, I'm so tired, I don't want to do it.' You know? 'I'm passionate about it, but I'm not going to be the person that changes things.' Why do we tell ourselves that? We totally could. There are so many people who are making so much change just because they're passionate.

The goal of Can't Do Nothing is to ask people, what matters for you? And whatever it is, what are you doing about it? How bad does it need to get before you take action?

You can become whoever you want to be. You can do what you want to do.

Nothing happens until you decide.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

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

New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

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.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.