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David Goggins's ideas on Confidence, collected in one place with clear source context.
"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."
"Believe in yourself enough to fail."
"Be uncommon amongst uncommon people."
"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."
"Don't focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn."
"Every day you are trying to find more of what you're capable of."
"Everything I do is to make me proud of me."
"Greatness pulls mediocrity into the mud. Get out there and get after it."
"I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done."
"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."
"I’m not crazy. I’m just not you."
"It’s about what you do when you’re not motivated."
"It's a lot of friction to get confidence. It's not easy. It comes from personal accountability."
"I was the sum total of the obstacles I had overcome."
"Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self."
"Mental toughness is a lifestyle."
"My work ethic is the single most important factor in all of my accomplishments."
"Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?"
"Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence."
"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."
"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing."
"The ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst."
"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."
"We all have the ability to come from nothing to something."
"When you look in the mirror, that's the one person you can't lie to."
"When you think you're done, you're only at 40% of your body's capability."
"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."
"You gain knowledge through suffering. And on the other end of suffering is a world that very few people have ever seen."
"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
"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."
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