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David Goggins approached Work from first principles, cutting through assumptions to reveal fundamental truths. This archive captures that thinking, giving you access to frameworks you can build on. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, allowing you to understand their reasoning. Use this when you need to think clearly about Work without inheriting broken mental models.
"If you can get through to doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness."
"There is no finish line."
"You are the leader of your own life."
"The accountability mirror is where you face your own BS."
"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 care what you've done. What are you doing today?"
"Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done."
"If you want to get better, do the things that no one else wants to do."
"The most important conversation you’ll ever have is the one you have with yourself."
"The only person who was going to turn my life around was me."
"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself."
"The only way to get to the other side of the journey is to suffer through it."
"When you think that you are done, you're only 40% into what your body's capable of doing."
"Everything in life is a mind game."
"It’s a lot more than just mind over matter. It takes relentless self-discipline."
"I'm not a genius. I'm just a guy who's willing to work harder than you. I am a student of the grind."
"If you're willing to suffer, and I mean suffer, your brain and body will eventually adapt."
"The mind is the most powerful weapon you have."
"If you're not doing the work, you're just dreaming."
"You have to find the discipline to do the work even when you don't feel like it."
"You gotta be your own hero."
"You have to build callouses on your brain just like you build them on your hands."
"You have to stay in the fight."
"Be uncomfortable every single day of your life."
"Outwork your own potential."
"Self-talk and visualization are the keys to my success."
"We live in a world where a lot of people need motivation. But motivation is a feeling that comes and goes."
"Greatness is not a permanent state. You have to work for it every single day."
"The ticket to victory is often won by the person who stays in the game the longest."
"Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence."
"I want to see how far I can go."
"Work like someone is trying to take everything from you."
"It’s not about the trophy. It’s about the work you put in when no one is watching."
"Most of this generation quits the second they get talked to. It's so easy to be great nowadays because most people are weak."
"Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you’re driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed."
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