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When you need Steven Pressfield's lens on Courage, this is your reference library. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, giving you immediate access to their best thinking on the subject. Use this collection to inform decisions, challenge assumptions, or find clarity when Courage becomes complex. Steven Pressfield's approach offers practical frameworks that ambitious professionals can apply without translation.
"There is something I must tell you. When Leonidas selected you for the Three Hundred, I went to him in private and argued strenuously against your inclusion. I thought you would not fight. [...] I was wrong. Polynikes p. 324"
"Do you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor. Orontes (Handing over Xeones' corpse to Athenian civilians) p. 430"
"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. Major Mike Mallory, p. 60"
"Both men were aware of the imperative held by all warrior races to serve honor before survival. Mother Bones (Narrator) p. 10"
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"This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I have sworn before God to die before another man took this from my hand. He crossed to the ranks of Thespians, to a man, an obscure warrior among them. Into the fellow's grasp he placed the shield. Polynikes p. 405"
"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. Oberleutnant Ehrlich, wounded German POW, p. 237"
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