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David Goggins's ideas on Discipline, collected in one place with clear source context.
"Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose."
"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."
"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing."
"Mental toughness is a lifestyle."
"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."
"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."
"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
"If you want to be one of the few, you have to do what the few do."
"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."
"Do something that sucks every single day. That is how you grow."
"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."
"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."
"If you want to get better, do the things that no one else wants to do."
"The only person who was going to turn my life around was me."
"You have to find the discipline to do the work even when you don't feel like it."
"You have to build calluses on your brain just like how you build calluses on your hands. Callus your mind through pain and suffering."
"Self-discipline is self-love. If you want to be happy, you have to love yourself, which means you have to discipline your behavior."
"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."
"The only way to get to the other side of the journey is to suffer."
"The path to success is paved with discipline and suffering."
"The reason it's important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind."
"The ticket to victory is often found in the things you don't want to do."
"To develop an unbreakable mind, you have to do things that suck."
"We live in a world where a lot of people need motivation. When you are driven, you don't need motivation."
"You are either getting better or you are getting worse. You're never staying the same."
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