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David Goggins's ideas on Confidence, collected in one place with clear source context.
"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
"I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done."
"The ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst."
"When you think you're done, you're only at 40% of your body's capability."
"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing."
"Don't focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn."
"Mental toughness is a lifestyle."
"If you want to be one of the few, you have to do what the few do."
"Greatness pulls mediocrity into the mud. Get out there and get after it."
"If you can get through doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness."
"I’m not crazy. I’m just not you."
"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."
"Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?"
"True self-confidence is not a feeling. It’s a state of being. It’s the ability to look in the mirror and like what you see."
"Confidence comes from the thing that you built. You must build belief. You must build confidence. It can’t be like, 'I am going to knock that guy out.' You have to have a resume behind it."
"The Cookie Jar is a place in my mind where I put all things bad and good that shaped me. Some people try to forget the bad. I use my bad for strength."
"You have to callous your mind. When you are callous, you are confident. You aren't afraid of the cold because you know the cold."
"We all have the ability to come from nothing to something."
"I was the sum total of the obstacles I had overcome."
"You gain knowledge through suffering. And on the other end of suffering is a world that very few people have ever seen."
"It's a lot of friction to get confidence. It's not easy. It comes from personal accountability."
"Everything I do is to make me proud of me."
"Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence."
"Be uncommon amongst uncommon people."
"My work ethic is the single most important factor in all of my accomplishments."
"A warrior is a guy that goes, 'I'm here again today. I'll be here again tomorrow and the next day.' It's a person who puts no limit on what is possible."
"Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self."
"Every day you are trying to find more of what you're capable of."
"Believe in yourself enough to fail."
"When you look in the mirror, that's the one person you can't lie to."
"Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose."
"It’s about what you do when you’re not motivated."
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