Steven Pressfield Quotes

Make your move BEFORE you are ready!

Start before you’re ready.

I believe great people do things before they are ready.

Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

I just have to make sure that, whenever an opportunity arises, I keep taking them.

When opportunities arise, you have to seize them.

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.

There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.