Steven Pressfield Quotes

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

You can't stop me, so step aside.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

They [sic] ain't gonna stop me from coming here, baby.

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

I never wanted to accept that. And so I have always fought against that in some way, shape or form and had - I've had people who have supported trying to get me in for things that were beyond the character description.

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.