“Most of us are quitting because we are walking into a challenge with no purpose and definitely no end state. You have to set yourself up to experience greatness.”
— David Goggins
“If you can get through to doing things you hate to do, on the other side is greatness.
— David Goggins
“Get your butterflys flying in formation.”
— Unknown 10th degree karate black belt, spoken to one of his young female students prior to a match (as related by Lisa Feldman Barrett on the Sam Harris ‘Making Sense’ podcast Episode #247)
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger. …”
— William Shakespeare / Henry V, Act-III, Scene-I, Lines 1-5