David Goggins Quotes To Unleashing Your Inner Warrior

The pain you are willing to endure is measured by how badly you want it.

I didn’t hang my head, because injuries happen. I’d given it everything I had and when you handle business like that, your effort will not go unnoticed.

Never let people who choose the path of least resistance steer you away from your chosen path of most resistance.

I tried to do so many things to fit in. But when you look in the mirror, that’s the one person you can’t lie to.

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

Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.

We live in an external world. Everything, you have to see it, touch it. If you can for the rest of your life, live inside yourself – to find greatness, you have to go inside.

It’s time to go to war with yourself.

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

Life is one big tug-of-war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self.

You must recognize what you are about to do, highlight what you do not like about it, and spend time visualizing each and every obstacle you can.

We all have the ability to come from nothing to something.

The path to success will leave you callused, bruised, and very tired. It will also leave you empowered.

As humans, we’re reading books every day to try to figure out how to be someone else. What we don’t do is go inside, turn ourselves inside out, and read our own story. You have to look inside to find out what you really want.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

Tell yourself the truth! That you’ve wasted enough time, and that you have other dreams that will take courage to realize…

We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

You can tolerate doubt as a backseat driver, but if you put doubt in the pilot’s seat, defeat is guaranteed.

There is no better way to grow as a person than to do every day something you hate.

There is no more time to waste. Hours and days evaporate like creeks in the desert. That’s why it’s okay to be cruel to yourself as long as you realize you’re doing it to become better.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of your insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

You can tolerate doubt as a backseat driver, but if you put doubt in the pilot’s seat, defeat is guaranteed.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

We all have the ability to come from nothing to something.

No matter who you are, who your parents are or were, where you live, what you do for a living, or how much money you have, you’re probably living at about 40 percent of your true capability.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

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

Analyze your schedule, kill your empty habits, burn out the bullshit, and see what’s left.

In every failure, a lot of good things will have happened, and we must acknowledge them.

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.

Suffering is the true test of life.

Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?

Only you can master your mind, which is what it takes to live a bold life filled with accomplishments most people consider beyond their capability.

Refused to compromise who I was to conform to their unwritten rules.

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!

Be more than motivated, be more than driven, and become literally obsessed to the point where people think you’re f*cking nuts.

If you want to be one of the few to defy those trends in our ever-softening society, you will have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity, which requires an open mind.

It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you.

The human body can withstand and accomplish a hell of a lot more than most of us think possible, and that it all begins and ends in the mind.

Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim at what you are willing to earn.

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

Comfort zones: If you live in one too long… that becomes your norm. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Having lived the life I’ve lived, and seeing the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me has made me happy.

If you’re not physically and mentally prepared for what life is going to throw at you, then you’re just going to crumble, And then, you’re no good to nobody.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

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 f**king pussy.

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

The Buddha famously said that life is suffering. I’m not a Buddhist, but I know what he meant and so do you. To exist in this world, we must contend with humiliation, broken dreams, sadness, and loss.

It’s okay, you might be called a nigger one day. It’s okay…Let them call you that. What are you going to do now? They don’t own your life. How you’re going to control that now?… Thicken your skin.

Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.

Everybody wants a quick fix. You may get results, but they won’t be permanent. The permanent results come from you having to suffer.

It’s so easy to be great nowadays because everyone else is weak.

If you want to get better, do the things that no one else wants to do. Do the things that no one is even thinking about doing.

There is no more time to waste. Hours and days evaporate like creeks in the desert. That’s why it’s okay to be cruel to yourself as long as you realize you’re doing it to become better.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Everyone fails sometimes and life isn’t supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim.

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.

If you want to be one of the few to defy those trends in our ever-softening society, you will have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity, which requires an open mind.

It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you.

From the time you take your first breath, you become eligible to die. You also become eligible to find your greatness and become the One Warrior. But it is up to you to equip yourself for the battle ahead.

Our culture has become hooked on the quick fix, the life hack, and efficiency. Everyone is on the hunt for that simple action algorithm that nets maximum profit with the least amount of effort.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have a passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Greatness pulls mediocrity into the mud. Get out there and get after it.

Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.

The only thing more contagious than a good attitude is a bad one.

In a human being your character is your foundation, and when you build a bunch of successes and pile up even more failures on a fu**ed-up foundation, the structure that is the self won’t be sound.

I tried to do so many things to fit in. But when you look in the mirror, that’s the one person you can’t lie to.

To develop an armored mind — a mindset so calloused and hard that it becomes bulletproof — you need to go to the source of all your fears and insecurities.

Having lived the life I’ve lived, and seeing the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me has made me happy.

I didn’t hang my head, because injuries happen. I’d given it everything I had and when you handle business like that, your effort will not go unnoticed.