Liputan6.com, Jakarta David Goggins is known as one of the toughest people in the world. He was a Navy SEAL and runs very long races. His words help people become stronger and work harder. These quotes will help you push past your limits and never give up. When life gets hard, these simple but powerful words can give you the strength to keep going.
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Mental Strength and Toughness
- You are only using 40% of what your body can really do
- Your mind is stronger than you think it is
- Pain opens a secret door in your mind to great performance
- Build tough skin on your brain like you build it on your hands
- The biggest war you fight is inside your own head
- Mental toughness is not just a skill, it is a way of life
- Your mind will try to stop you before your body needs to stop
- When your brain says quit, you still have 60% more to give
- Strong minds come from doing things you do not want to do
- You must control your mind or it will control you
- Fear should guide you to what you need to do most
- The most important talks you have are with yourself
- Suffering makes you discover who you really are
- Hard times do not last, but tough people do
- Your thoughts become your actions, so think strong thoughts
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Never Giving Up and Pushing Forward
- Do not stop when you feel tired, stop when you finish the job
- Everyone fails sometimes, but winners keep trying
- When you want to quit the most, that is when you must push hardest
- You have not earned anything until you prove it with hard work
- Keep going even when everything hurts
- The person who never quits will always win in the end
- Every day you must choose to get better or get worse
- Small wins every day lead to big victories later
- You lose the morning battle but can still win the day war
- Tomorrow is a new chance to prove yourself again
- What does not kill you can make you much stronger
- Bad days teach you more than good days ever will
- Keep moving forward even when you cannot see the end
- The finish line is closer than your tired mind thinks
- Winners find a way, losers find an excuse
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Hard Work and Discipline
- Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard
- You must become addicted to doing difficult things
- Schedule suffering into your day, every single day
- If you choose to do something, attack it with everything you have
- The only way to get tough is to put yourself in tough situations
- Discipline means doing what you hate until you love it
- Work harder than everyone else when no one is watching
- Your work ethic must be stronger than your excuses
- Do the work that others are not willing to do
- Success comes from doing boring things over and over
- Train harder than you compete and competing becomes easier
- Every rep, every step, every breath must have a purpose
- Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now
- Hard work is the price you pay for the life you want
- Consistency in small things leads to big results
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Overcoming Comfort and Challenges
- You are in danger of living a life that is too comfortable
- Comfort zones are where dreams go to die
- Get comfortable with being uncomfortable every day
- The easy path leads to a hard life
- Challenges are gifts that make you stronger
- Embrace the things that scare you the most
- Soft living creates soft people
- If it does not challenge you, it will not change you
- Step outside your comfort zone and stay there
- Easy choices lead to a difficult life
- Difficult choices lead to an easy life
- The path of most resistance builds the most character
- Avoid people who always choose the easy way
- Growth happens when you do what you do not want to do
- Comfortable people never reach their full potential
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Self-Motivation and Drive
- Be more than motivated, become completely obsessed
- You must be your own coach, trainer, and biggest fan
- Motivation comes and goes, but drive destroys everything in its path
- Nobody cares what you did yesterday, what will you do today
- You will never meet a hater who is doing better than you
- Become so driven that people think you are crazy
- Your biggest enemy and best friend both live in your head
- Stop waiting for someone else to save you
- You are the hero of your own story
- Take control of your life or someone else will
- Your future depends on what you do today
- Stop making excuses and start making progress
- You get rewarded based on the value you give to the world
- Believe in yourself when nobody else does
- Your drive must be stronger than your circumstances
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Facing Fear and Taking Action
- Fear is just a feeling, not a fact
- Do the thing you are most afraid to do
- Fear shows you exactly where you need to go
- Courage is not the absence of fear, it is action despite fear
- Your fears are smaller than your dreams
- Face your fears or they will control your life
- The thing you avoid the most is what you need to do first
- Fear is a compass pointing toward your growth
- Run toward what scares you the most
- Fear is temporary, but regret lasts forever
- You cannot defeat what you refuse to face
- Fear is the price of admission to greatness
- Scared money never wins big
- Your comfort zone is your danger zone
- Fear is just excitement without breath
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Personal Growth and Change
- You must be willing to become the student again
- Change requires you to become uncomfortable with who you are
- Growth happens when you stop making excuses
- You cannot become who you want to be by staying who you are
- Personal change starts with personal honesty
- You are either growing or you are dying
- Become uncommon among uncommon people
- Your past does not define your future
- You have unlimited potential waiting to be unlocked
- Stop being satisfied with being average
- Greatness requires you to outgrow your old self
- You must destroy who you were to become who you can be
- Change is painful, but staying the same is worse
- Your potential is much bigger than your problems
- Become the person you needed when you were younger
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Success and Achievement
- Success is not given, it must be earned through suffering
- Do not focus on what you deserve, focus on what you will earn
- Greatness pulls average people out of their comfort
- You want to be uncommon among uncommon people
- Success requires you to do what others will not do
- The ticket to victory comes when you feel your worst
- Most wars are won or lost in your own head
- You do not rise to your expectations, you fall to your training level
- Success is about bringing your best when you feel terrible
- Achievement comes from doing ordinary things extraordinarily well
- Winners do what losers are not willing to do
- Success is not about talent, it is about work ethic
- Great people do great things when they do not feel like it
- Success is the result of preparation meeting opportunity
- Champions are made when nobody is watching
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Life Lessons and Wisdom
- Life is suffering, but suffering has a purpose
- The worst thing that can happen to a person is becoming too civilized
- Life is the most brutal endurance sport of all time
- You cannot control what happens to you, but you control your response
- Every failure teaches you something valuable for next time
- Life will test you, but tests make you stronger
- The only thing more contagious than a good attitude is a bad one
- Seeds must break apart before they can grow into trees
- Your happiness comes from overcoming suffering, not avoiding it
- Life is not supposed to be fair or easy
- You become the sum of all obstacles you have overcome
- Bad things end, but so do good things, so appreciate both
- Life rewards those who show up every day
- Your story is not over until you stop writing it
- Life is too short to live someone else's dream
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Daily Motivation and Mindset
- Every morning is a chance to prove yourself again
- Start each day by doing something that scares you
- Your daily habits determine your future success
- Small daily improvements lead to big yearly results
- What you do today matters more than what you did yesterday
- Every day you get to choose who you want to become
- Make your bed, win the day
- The morning sets the tone for everything that follows
- Daily discipline creates weekly progress
- You are either getting better today or getting worse
- Today is the first day of the rest of your life
- Make today so awesome that yesterday gets jealous
- Every sunrise is a new opportunity to be great
- Your daily choices create your yearly results
- Stay hard, stay focused, stay hungry for more