Steven Pressfield Quotes

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

I just have to keep working hard and keep pushing for my chance.

You have to keep trying to get better.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

I believe that if you stay positive and you keep your nose to the ground and you keep working hard for every inch that eventually will pay off and something will roll your way.

I believe that success either comes overnight or slowly, but steadily.

You have to keep performing and keep showing people that you are capable of playing at the higher league. Once you get that sniff, you never look back.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

Keep on doing what you're doing.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

Whatever you do, stay focused. Because any stuff is not going to last forever. Once you get a show at something, you gotta roll with it. You can't sit on your ass. You better keep working. You better stay motivated.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.