Steven Pressfield Quotes

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the love of a woman - the need to be worthy of her.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.

Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

I know it sounds cliche, but you have to believe in yourself because there's going to be moments that no one else does.

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.