Steven Pressfield Quotes

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

If you don't stand up to your fears, have bravery, loyalty, and you don't have friends, you'll never win. You'll never feel better about yourself.

I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

People can change, learn, and grow, and it's better to face your demons instead of perpetually running away from them.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.

Sometimes you have to face up to your fears to realize that they aren't actually real.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

Run towards your fears. Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears lives your greatest life.

I feel like through martial arts I'm able to face my fears head on. It makes me not run away from challenges in life. I'm able to transfer my martial arts training over to other challenges. To be able to conquer your fears is the best feeling in the world.

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

I fight because it allows me to face my fears head on, and conquer those fears one by one.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process.