David Goggins Quotes

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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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • You
  • Small
  • Seeing

• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Best
  • Passionate
  • Courageous

• There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Yourself
  • Look
  • Skin

• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

  

  Ovid
  • Courage
  • Body
  • Strength

• The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Women
  • Management
  • Forward

• I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • Club

• I have fabulous children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Fabulous

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

  

  Beck
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Piano

• It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

  

  Owen Hart
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Age
  • Alone
  • Focus

• There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is and how great it is to raise kids Jewish, these people are going to raise their kids Jewish. Ultimately, that's all that matters.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Attention
  • Concentration
  • Equanimity

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• I don't know how long the North Korean regime can last. But we can't just wait for them to collapse, because in the meantime, they can do lasting damage to our security.

  

  Ashton Carter
  • Security
  • Damage
  • Regime

• You can take your Jake Roberts and your Hulk Hogans and your Ultimate Warriors and a lot of these guys that were big names back then, but they never did anything for me. They never helped me, they never thought of helping me, and when they had a chance to help me, they never did.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Chance
  • Names
  • Helped

• You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Moment

• 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
  • Doing
  • Yourself
  • Achieve