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David Goggins Quotes

Former U.S. Navy SEAL and ultramarathon athlete. Author of Can't Hurt Me; central voice in the modern mental-toughness conversation.

9 sourced quotes from David Goggins across Fear & Mental Toughness.

“When you want to quit, you are only forty percent done.”

Cant Hurt Me · 2018 Fear

“The most important conversations you will ever have are the ones you have with yourself.”

Cant Hurt Me Fear

“You have to build calluses on your mind, just like you would on your hands.”

Cant Hurt Me Fear

“When you think you are done, you are at 40 percent of your capacity. The other 60 is what you are training to find.”

Can't Hurt Me · 2018 · the 40% Rule Mental Toughness

“Most people quit when it gets hard because the hard part is where the work is. Everyone wants to be the person on the other side of the suffering. Almost no one wants to be the person in it.”

Can't Hurt Me · paraphrased Mental Toughness

“The Accountability Mirror is not pretty. It is not motivational. It is a mirror you stand in front of every morning and tell yourself the unflattering truth about who you have been pretending not to be.”

Can't Hurt Me · the Accountability Mirror Mental Toughness

“Keep a cookie jar. Every time you do something hard you did not think you could do, put it in the jar. On the days the new thing seems impossible, reach into the jar. The hand that wrote the cookies is the same hand reaching now.”

Can't Hurt Me · the Cookie Jar Mental Toughness

“I do not stop when I am tired. I stop when I am done.”

attributed Mental Toughness

“The hard times will come. The hard times will go. Your job is to keep your soul alive in both.”

Never Finished · 2022 Mental Toughness