Top 15 David Goggins Quotes

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.

Our culture has become hooked on the quick-fix, the life hack, efficiency. Everyone is on the hunt for that simple action algorithm that nets maximum profit with the least amount of effort. There’s no denying this attitude may get you some of the trappings of success, if you’re lucky, but it will not lead to a calloused mind or self-mastery. If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, 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.

It won’t always go your way, so you can’t get trapped in this idea that just because you’ve imagined a possibility for yourself that you somehow deserve it. Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn!

In the military we always say we don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training,

No one is going to come help you. No one's coming to save you.

It's a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.

I thought I’d solved a problem when really I was creating new ones by taking the path of least resistance.

We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.

The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.

Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you're fucking nuts.

Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done

We live in a world with a lot of insecure, jealous people. Some of them are our best friends. They are blood relatives. Failure terrifies them. So does our success. Because when we transcend what we once thought possible, push our limits, and become more, our light reflects off all the walls they’ve built up around them. Your light enables them to see the contours of their own prison, their own self-limitations. But if they are truly the great people you always believed them to be, their jealousy will evolve, and soon their imagination might hop its fence, and it will be their turn to change for the better.

Everything in life is a mind game! Whenever we get swept under by life’s dramas, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things end.

Tell yourself the truth! That you’ve wasted enough time, and that you have other dreams that will take courage to realize, so you don’t die a fucking pussy.