Steven Pressfield Quotes

To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.

You can’t go back. Can’t fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference.” She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. “From where I’m standing, you’re the best step I ever took.

You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

Life moves on and so should we

Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.