Steven Pressfield Quotes

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

I think my worst enemy is me.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

Every man is his own worst enemy

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.