Steven Pressfield Quotes

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

Most of us talk ourselves out of our own ideas, because we're our own worst enemy.

No one can bully me better than me. I'm the first person to the party going, 'Don't worry - you don't have to cut me down, 'cause I'm already there.' I struggled with all those voices and gave them so much power, to the point where they took over my life.

I needed to turn off the negative voice in my head - I was psyching myself out.

I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say "You don't need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now."

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

As women, we can over-think things so much that we silence our intuition and only focus on the reasons something won't work.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

I had so much anger and judgement towards myself for my work not being up to the standard that I expected it to be, so I wouldn't allow myself to complete anything.

I know I'm my own worst critic.

We're our own worst critics.

Rather than setting yourself a New Year's resolution, why not simply pick a reason for hating yourself for the next 365 days? Takes less time, and it's easier to stick to.

When I don't play well, nobody needs to say anything to me. I beat myself up.

I was my worst critic ever.

I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.

I'm my own worst enemy.

I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.