18 quotes
"The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself."
- David Goggins
Self-awareness
"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
- David Goggins
Personal Growth
"I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it."
- David Goggins
Personal Growth
""It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.""
- David Goggins
Motivation
"If you want to master the mind [...], you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up."
- David Goggins
Hard Work
"If you want to master the mind […], you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up."
- David Goggins
Hard Work
"It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you."
- David Goggins
Adversity
"Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success."
- David Goggins
Resilience
"We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that."
- David Goggins
Growth
""We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.""
- David Goggins
Growth
"Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that."
- David Goggins
Growth
"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war."
- David Goggins
Inner Peace
"When you think that you are done, you’re only 40% in to what your body’s capable of doing. That’s just the limits that we put on ourselves."
- David Goggins
Persistence
"Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done."
- David Goggins
Determination
"It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run."
- David Goggins
Determination
"I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done."
- David Goggins
Determination
"I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line."
- David Goggins
Determination
"Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done."
- David Goggins
Perseverance