Steven Pressfield Quotes

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I know well. For it is a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

I don't think I was a failure. I just wasn't a success.

When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.

Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.

I have grown up seeing success and failure.

This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough,'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

Respect your success.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.