Steven Pressfield - Gates of Fire (1998)

10 Sourced Quotes

View all Steven Pressfield Quotes
Do you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor.

Steven Pressfield
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.

Steven Pressfield
If you think this is funny, wait 'till you get into combat. You'll think that's hysterical!

Steven Pressfield
I believe him, Dienekes. He's so fucking stupid, this is just the way he would skrew it up.

Steven Pressfield
Why have I nominated you, lady, to bear up beneath this most terrible of trials, you and your sisters of the Three Hundred? Because you can.

Steven Pressfield
The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

Steven Pressfield
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.

Steven Pressfield
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.

Steven Pressfield
You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

Steven Pressfield
I have always found the spear to be a rather inelegant weapon

Steven Pressfield