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.

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"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

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"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."

- Unknown

Hard Work

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

Hard Work

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

Hard Work

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

Hard Work