David Goggins Quotes

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I've been through hell not totally unscathed, but I came out not too bad.

I have been through so much.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

I'm not in the business of suffering.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.’ (Nykyrian)

Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

My life is a struggle.