# Steven Pressfield

- Quotes: 30
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield

## Books

- [Gates of Fire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire.md) — 9 quotes
- [Killing Rommel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/killing-rommel.md) — 7 quotes
- [Last of the Amazons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/last-of-the-amazons.md) — 8 quotes
- [The Profession](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/the-profession.md) — 3 quotes
- [Tides of War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/tides-of-war.md) — 3 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> The greatest commanders never issue orders. Rather, they compel by their own acts and virtue the emulation of those they command. The great champions throw leadership back on you. They make you answer: Who am I? What do I seek? What is the meaning of my existence in this life?

p. 2 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/the-profession/the-greatest-commanders.md)

> I love a guy who knows how to bitch. Any moron can gripe about chow or rotations, but someone who can get exercised over architecture is my kind of dude.

p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/the-profession/i-love-a-guy.md)

> In the end the American dream boils down to what? I'm getting mine and to hell with you.

p. 306 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/the-profession/in-the-end.md)

> I approve of all you say, gentlemen. The fleet's needs are many and urgent. One, however, must take precedence. This item the men need before all, and we must get it for them without fail and without deferral. We must get the men a victory.

p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/tides-of-war/i-approve-of-all.md)

> One act I will never stand for is leaving our fellows behind. Bugger military protocol, or lofty notions of honour. I can't live with running out on a pal, and I won't let any of you do it either.

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/killing-rommel/one-act-i-will.md)

> Both men were aware of the imperative held by all warrior races to serve honor before survival.

p. 10 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/last-of-the-amazons/both-men-were.md)

> You English are loath to embrace the virtues of the warrior. Such an act embarrasses you. You prefer to see yourselves as civilians summoned reluctantly to arms, as-what is the word?-'amatuers.' But you are warriors, you English. You are, Chapman. Trust me, who has faced you in the field.

p. 237 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/killing-rommel/you-english-are.md)

> At Athens and Athens alone, a new stamp of person was being born, neither baron nor yeoman, but a man of the city. A citizen.

p. 87 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/last-of-the-amazons/at-athens-and.md)

> Among the ways the Spartans differ from other peoples is this. When an ally in distress applies to them for aid, they alone dispatch neither troops nor treasure but a solitary commander, a general. This officer alone, assuming charge of the beleagured forces, is sufficiant, they feel, to turn affairs about and produce victory. This as the world knows is what happened at Syracuse.

p. 162 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/tides-of-war/among-the-ways.md)

> The Mammoth we attacked was not Rommel's after all. [...] Rommel himself, we'll learn later, was not in that camp and never had been. At the time of our raid, he was with the 15th Panzer Division, somewhere west of Kidney Ridge, in the thick of the fighting at El Alamein.

p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/killing-rommel/the-mammoth-we-attacked.md)

> Do you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor.

p. 430 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/do-you-love.md)

> Bear your command with humility. Lead, do not condescend. Remember, these are great events and men will rise to them. Treat every man as a Soldier. He may surprise you and be one.

p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/last-of-the-amazons/bear-your-command.md)