david goggins

“ As humans, we're reading books everyday to try to figure out how to be someone else. What we don't do is go inside, turn ourselves inside out, and read our own story. ”

“ My work ethic is the single most important factor in all of my accomplishments. ”

“ But what put distance between me and almost everybody else in that platoon is that I didnt let my desire for comfort rule me. ”

“ Failure is an option. ”

“ The only reason why I became successful was because I went towards the truth. As painful and as brutal as it is, it changed me. It allowed me, in my own right, to become the person who I am today. ”

“ There is always more to learn, and you will always have weaknesses to strengthen if you want to become as hard as woodpecker lips. ”

“ People take classes on self-help, mental toughness, breathing control the only way to get tougher is to put yourself in hellacious situations. ”

“ Once, I was so focused on failing, I was afraid to even try. ”

“ In the military, we always say we dont rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. ”

“ If you want to be one of the few to defy those trends in our ever-softening society, you will have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity, which requires an open mind. ”