Steven Pressfield Quotes

When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim.

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.

Once you slay one fear, you can conquer many fears.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

I do not wish to be melodramatic, but at some point I have to say it. If something bad should happen to me, I want you to know that my commitment to what I am doing has been freely contracted, with the joy of knowing that this is precisely what I should be doing at this moment. Fear is constantly present in each one of us, because none of us are movie heroes. But we refuse to accept that fear must condition our actions and prevent us from doing what with a cool head and fervent heart we understand should be done.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.