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David Goggins's ideas on Discipline, collected in one place with clear source context.
"Mental toughness is a lifestyle."
"I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done."
"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
"If you can get through doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness."
"If you want to be one of the few, you have to do what the few do."
"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."
"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."
"Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose."
"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing."
"It's a lot of friction to get confidence. It's not easy. It comes from personal accountability."
"You have to build calluses on your brain just like how you build calluses on your hands. Callous your mind through pain and suffering."
"The only way to get to the other side is to go through it."
"The only way to find out what is possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
"Every morning in our lives, we have a choice to make. You have the choice to stay in bed and say, 'Forget it, I'm not going to work out today.' or 'Forget it, I'm not going to work hard today.' That's your choice."
"Do something that sucks every single day. That is how you grow."
"Your body is the ultimate servant. It will do whatever you tell it to do, but you have to have the mind to tell it."
"Don't let your body decide what you're going to do. Let your mind decide."
"Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you’re driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed."
"Fear is my greatest motivator. It is the fuel that drives me to do the things I do not want to do."
"It’s a lot more than just mind over matter. It takes relentless self-discipline."
"When you think that you are done, you're only 40% into what your body's capable of doing."
"The only person who was going to turn my life around was me."
"If you want to get better, do the things that no one else wants to do."
"You have to find the discipline to do the work even when you don't feel like it."
"Self-discipline is self-love. If you want to be happy, you have to love yourself, which means you have to discipline your behavior."
"You have to build calluses on your brain just like how you build calluses on your hands. Callus your mind through pain and suffering."
"Do not let your feelings dictate your actions. Let your discipline dictate your actions."
"It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day."
"You must develop the discipline to do what needs to be done when you don't feel like doing it."
"The most important conversation you will ever have is the one you have with yourself."
"You have to build a thick skin and a hard mind through discipline."
"Everything in life is a mind game! Whenever we get swept up in life’s dramas, we are often forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, all bad things end."
"The only way to get to the other side of the journey is through suffering and discipline."
"A warrior is a guy that goes, 'I’m here again today. I’ll be here again tomorrow and the next day.'"
"Greatness is not something that you meet, it’s something that you beat."
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