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“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“In the military we always say we don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training,”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“It's a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you're fucking nuts.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“The Buddha famously said that life is suffering. I’m not a Buddhist, but I know what he meant and so do you. To exist in this world, we must contend with humiliation, broken dreams, sadness, and loss.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“When you think that you are done, you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing. That's just the limits that we put on ourselves.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“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.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Analyze your schedule, kill your empty habits, burn out the bullshit, and see what’s left.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“The hard part is getting to that point, because the ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“I was the sum total of the obstacles I'd overcome.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“That’s when I first realized that not all physical and mental limitations are real, and that I had a habit of giving up way too soon.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Reality can be brutal when all of your excuses are stripped away and you are exposed for exactly who and what you have become, but the truth can also be liberating.”
― David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

“Mental toughness and resilience fade if they aren’t used consistently. I say it all the time: you are either getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.”
― David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”
― GLADWELL MALCOM, Outliers: The Story of Success

“The world we could have is so much richer than the world we have settled for.”
― Malcom Gladwell

“An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.”
― Malcom Gladwell

“When you have nothing to lose, you have the freedom to thumb your nose at the rules set by others.”
― malcom gladwell

“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities— and who have had the strength and presence of mine to seize them.”
― Malcom Gladwell

“Just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous, and a dead shot.”
― malcom gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.”
― Jordan Peterson

“It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos