Steven Pressfield Quotes

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Don't prepare. Begin. Our enemy is not lack of preparation. The enemy is resistance, our chattering brain producing excuses. Start before you are ready.

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.

Don't talk of what you're "going to do!" Do it!

I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

Stop asking, start doing.

Stop stewing and start doing!

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

You don't get anything done by planning

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

Screw it, just do it!

Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.