David Goggins on Fitness Quotes

"The ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst."

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

"If you can get through doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness."

"Denial is the ultimate comfort zone."

"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 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."

"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."

"I was the sum of all the obstacles I had overcome."

"I woke up and realized that the only way I was going to get where I wanted to go was to suffer."

"Most people who are doubting you are doubting you because they can't see themselves doing what you are trying to do."

"Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you’re driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed."

"Physical training relies on mental training. You can't achieve one without the other."

"Suffering is a test. That's all it is. Suffering is the true test of life."

"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."

"The reason I exercise is because it is the only way to quiet the demons in my mind."

"There is no finish line. There is always more to do, more to learn, and more to achieve."

"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to become civilized."

"We live in a world where a lot of people need goals, motivation, and a lot of other words to get started. You just need to start."

"When you think that you are done, you're only 40% into what your body's capable of doing. That's just the limits that we put on ourselves."

"You have to build calluses on your brain just like how you build calluses on your hands. Judgement failure, boredom, pain, anxiety, insecurity—you need to face all of that."

"You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself. If you’re fat, you’re fat. Tell yourself the truth."

"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."

"Be the guy who is up early, hitting it hard while everyone else is sleeping."

"Don't let your body decide what you're going to do. Let your mind decide."

"Do something that sucks every single day. That is how you grow."

"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."

"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."

"Everyone wants some magic pill—some life hack—that eliminates the need to do the work. But that does not exist."

"Greatness is not something that if you meet it once it stays with you forever. That shit evaporates. It’s something you have to chase every day."

"If you want to be one of the few, you have to do what the few do. You have to work when nobody is watching."

"It’s a lot easier to be a victim than it is to be a victor. It takes work to be a victor."