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Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds QUOTES

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds QUOTES

1 " Evaluate your life in its totality! We all waste so much time doing meaningless bullshit. We burn hours on social media and watching television, which by the end of the year would add up to entire days and weeks if you tabulated time like you do your taxes. You should, because if you knew the truth you’d deactivate your Facebook account STAT, and cut your cable. When "

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

2 " 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

3 " No one is going to come help you. No one's coming to save you. "

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

4 " 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

5 " 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

6 " Our culture has become hooked on the quick-fix, the life hack, efficiency. Everyone is on the hunt for that simple action algorithm that nets maximum profit with the least amount of effort. There’s no denying this attitude may get you some of the trappings of success, if you’re lucky, but it will not lead to a calloused mind or self-mastery. If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up. "

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

7 " It won’t always go your way, so you can’t get trapped in this idea that just because you’ve imagined a possibility for yourself that you somehow deserve it. Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn! "

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

8 " 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

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

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

10 " We live in a world with a lot of insecure, jealous people. Some of them are our best friends. They are blood relatives. Failure terrifies them. So does our success. Because when we transcend what we once thought possible, push our limits, and become more, our light reflects off all the walls they’ve built up around them. Your light enables them to see the contours of their own prison, their own self-limitations. But if they are truly the great people you always believed them to be, their jealousy will evolve, and soon their imagination might hop its fence, and it will be their turn to change for the better. "

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

11 " We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse. "

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

12 " 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

13 " Denial is the ultimate comfort zone. "

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

14 " Tell yourself the truth! That you’ve wasted enough time, and that you have other dreams that will take courage to realize, so you don’t die a fucking pussy. "

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

15 " Heraclitus, a philosopher born in the Persian Empire back in the fifth century BC, had it right when he wrote about men on the battlefield. “Out of every one hundred men,” he wrote, “ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior… "

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

16 " We all need small sparks, small accomplishments in our lives to fuel the big ones. Think of your small accomplishments as kindling. When you want a bonfire, you don’t start by lighting a big log. You collect some witch’s hair—a small pile of hay or some dry, dead grass. You light that, and then add small sticks and bigger sticks before you feed your tree stump into the blaze. Because it’s the small sparks, which start small fires, that eventually build enough heat to burn the whole fucking forest down. "

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

17 " From then on, I brainwashed myself into craving discomfort. If it was raining, I would go run. Whenever it started snowing, my mind would say, Get your fucking running shoes on. Sometimes I wussed out and had to deal with it at the Accountability Mirror. But facing that mirror, facing myself, motivated me to fight through uncomfortable experiences, and, as a result, I became tougher. And being tough and resilient helped me meet my goals. "

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

18 " 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

19 " Everything in life is a mind game! Whenever we get swept under by life’s dramas, large and small, we are forgetting that no matter how bad the pain gets, no matter how harrowing the torture, all bad things end. "

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

20 " 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