Top 100 David Goggins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”

— David Goggins

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2. “Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”

— David Goggins

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3. “It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.”

— David Goggins

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4. “Failure is an option. It’s what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can’t sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.”

— David Goggins

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5. “If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing it, usually you can’t achieve it.”

— David Goggins

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6. “You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”

— David Goggins

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7. “Don’t kill them with kindness, Torture them with success.”

— David Goggins

8. “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

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9. “The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind. It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated.”

— David Goggins

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10. “Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance and beautiful silence.”

— David Goggins

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11. “No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you.”

— David Goggins

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12. “Motivation is crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you are driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed.”

— David Goggins

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13. “You are stopping you. You are giving up instead of getting hard.”

— David Goggins

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14. “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.”

— David Goggins

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15. “The bottom line is that life is one big mind game. The only person you are playing against is yourself.”

— David Goggins

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16. “Whatever it takes for you to believe that you’re better than good enough to achieve your dreams is what you must do. And remember, your greatness is not tied to any outcome. It is found in the valiance of the attempt.”

— David Goggins

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17. “It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”

— David Goggins

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18. “We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.”

— David Goggins

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19. “A prepared mind craves the worst conditions because it knows that pressure brings out its best and exposes almost everyone else.”

— David Goggins

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20. “We have to learn to stop looking for a sign that the hard time will end.”

— David Goggins

21. “I’m haunted by my future goals, not my past failures. I’m haunted by what I may still become. I’m haunted by my own continued thirst for evolution.”

— David Goggins

22. “Only you can master your mind, which is what it takes to live a bold life filled with accomplishments most people consider beyond their capability.”

— David Goggins

23. “There is no more time to waste. Hours and days evaporate like creeks in the desert. That’s why it’s okay to be cruel to yourself as long as you realize you’re doing it to become better. We all need thicker skin to improve in life. Being soft when you look in the mirror isn’t going to inspire the wholesale changes we need to shift our present and open up our future.”

— David Goggins

24. “This is not about changing your life instantly, it’s about moving the needle bit by bit and making those changes sustainable. That means digging down to the micro level and doing something that sucks every day. Even if it’s as simple as making your bed, doing the dishes, ironing your clothes, or getting up before dawn and running two miles each day.”

— David Goggins

25. “I want you to work harder on that project or in that class than you ever have before. Do everything exactly as they ask, and whatever standard they set as an ideal outcome, you should be aiming to surpass that.”

— David Goggins

26. “It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day, but if you do, you’ll find that at the other end of that suffering is a whole other life just waiting for you.”

— David Goggins

27. “Each hour of his week is dedicated to a particular task and when that hour shows up in real time, he focuses 100 percent on that task. That’s how I do it too, because that is the only way to minimize wasted hours.”

— David Goggins

28. “The only way to achieve greatness in life is to have patience, consistency and discipline.”

— David Goggins

29. “Incremental progress is still progress, I said to myself. One step is all that is required to take the next one.”

— David Goggins

30. “The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.”

— David Goggins

31. “I was the sum total of the obstacles I’d overcome.”

— David Goggins

32. “Know why you’re in the fight to stay in the fight! And never forget that all emotional and physical anguish is finite! It all ends eventually. Smile at pain and watch it fade for at least a second or two.”

— David Goggins

33. “I thought I’d solved a problem when really I was creating new ones by taking the path of least resistance.”

— David Goggins

34. “No matter how they’re treating you there is one way to not only earn their respect, but turn the tables. Excellence.”

— David Goggins

35. “There is no more time to waste. Hours and days evaporate like creeks in the desert. That’s why it’s okay to be cruel to yourself as long as you realize you’re doing it to become better.”

— David Goggins

36. “I understand the temptation to sell short, but I also know that impulse is driven by your mind’s desire for comfort, and it’s not telling you the truth. It’s your identity trying to find sanctuary, not help you grow. It’s looking for status quo, not reaching for greatness.”

— David Goggins

37. “Because when you’re driven, whatever is in front of you, whether it’s racism, sexism, injuries, divorce, depression, obesity, tragedy, or poverty, becomes fuel for your metamorphosis.”

— David Goggins

38. “Every minute you spend feeling sorry for yourself is another minute not getting better, another morning you miss at the gym, another evening wasted without studying. Another day burned when you didn’t make any progress toward your dreams, ambitions, and deepest desires. The ones you’ve had in your head and heart your entire life.”

— David Goggins

39. “To develop an armored mind – a mindset so calloused and hard that it becomes bulletproof – you need to go to the source of all your fears and insecurities. Most of us sweep our failures and evil secrets under the rug, but when we run into problems, that rug gets lifted up, and our darkness re-emerges, floods our soul, and influences the decisions which determine our character.”

— David Goggins

40. “Hell Week was a mind game. The instructors used our suffering to pick and peel away our layers, not to find the fittest athletes. To find the strongest minds. That’s something the quitters didn’t understand until it was too late.”

— David Goggins

41. “If you feel wronged by somebody else, you may be waiting on a confession or an apology in order to move forward, but I’m sorry to say the apology – that tearful confession you’ve been dreaming of – will never come. The good news is you don’t need anybody else to free you from your trauma. You can do it on your own.”

— David Goggins

42. “If you truly want to become uncommon amongst the uncommon, it will require sustaining greatness for a long period of time. It requires staying in constant pursuit and putting out unending effort. This may sound appealing but will require everything you have to give and then some. Believe me, this is not for everyone because it will demand singular focus and may upset the balance in your life.”

— David Goggins

43. “It takes great strength to be vulnerable enough to put your ass on the line, in public, and work toward a dream that feels like it’s slipping away.”

— David Goggins

44. “The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself. You wake up with them, you walk around with them, you go to bed with them, and eventually you act on them. Whether they be good or bad. We are all our own worst haters and doubters because self doubt is a natural reaction to any bold attempt to change your life for the better. You can’t stop it from blooming in your brain, but you can neutralize it, and all the other external chatter by asking, What if?”

— David Goggins

45. “A true leader stays exhausted, abhors arrogance, and never looks down on the weakest link. He fights for his men and leads by example. That’s what it meant to be uncommon among uncommon. It meant being one of the best and helping your men find their best too.”

— David Goggins

46. “But you don’t have to let your doubt into the cockpit! You can tolerate doubt as a backseat driver, but if you put doubt in the pilot’s seat, defeat is guaranteed. Remembering that you’ve been through difficulties before and have always survived to fight again shifts the conversation in your head. It will allow you to control and manage doubt, and keep you focused on taking each and every step necessary to achieve the task at hand.”

— David Goggins

47. “When a half-assed job doesn’t bother you, it speaks volumes about the kind of person you are. And until you start feeling a sense of pride and self-respect in the work you do, no matter how small or overlooked those jobs might be, you will continue to half-ass your life.”

— David Goggins

48. “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

49. “It’s funny, humans tend to hatch our most challenging goals and dreams, the ones that demand the our greatest effort yet promise absolutely nothing, when we are tucked into our comfort zones.”

— David Goggins

50. “That’s the drawback of becoming uncommon amongst uncommon. You can push yourself to a place that is beyond the current capability or temporal mindset of the people you work with, and that’s okay.”

— David Goggins