1. “Believe it or not, most people prefer delusion. They blame others or bad luck or chaotic circumstance.”
2. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
3. “Suffering is a test. That’s all it is. Suffering is the true test of life.”
4. “Motivation is a crap. Motivation comes and goes. When you’re driven, whatever is in front of you will get destroyed.”
5. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.”
6. “Go home. Shut your phone off. Shut the f*cking TVs off. Shut the world off. And tune in to you.”
7. “Like the Taoists say, those that know don’t speak, and those who speak, well, they don’t know jack shit.”
8. “There’s got to be someone who demonstrates greatness and makes everyone around them think differently.”
9. “Always be ready to adjust, recalibrate, and stay after it to become better, somehow.”
10. “Very few people know how the bottom feels, but I do. It’s like quicksand. It grabs you, sucks you under, and won’t let go.”
11. “Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you’re fucking nuts.”
12. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
13. “Everyone fails sometimes and life isn’t supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim.”
14. “Tell the truth about the real reasons for your limitations and you will turn that negativity, which is real, into jet fuel.”
15. “Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.”
16. “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!”
17. “Never let people who choose the path of least resistance steer you away from your chosen path of most resistance.”
18. “Seeds burst from the inside out in a self-destructive ritual of new life.”
19. “The hard part is getting to that point, because the ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst.”
20. “The only way to achieve greatness in life is to have patience, consistency, and discipline.”
21. “If you choose to do something, attack it.”
22. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”
23. “Analyze your schedule, kill your empty habits, burn out the bullshit, and see what’s left.”
24. “Be true to whoever or whatever you are, wear it like a badge of honor. Fit in with one person and one person only, yourself.”
25. “Success is based off of your willingness to work your ass off no matter what obstacles are in your way.”
26. “Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self.”
27. “We are training kids and people to be soft, in a world that continuously gets harder.”
28. “We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.”
29. “My happiness is my reflection on the suffering during my journey and knowing that I never quit nor was I guided by anybody on this earth.”
30. “You have to be your own motivator, your own coach, your own trainer – your own everything.”
31. “A prepared mind craves the worst conditions because it knows that pressure brings out its best.”
32. “You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.”
33. “If any of that is stopping you from excelling in life, I’ve got some news – you are stopping you, you are giving up instead of getting hard.”
34. “In the military we always say we don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
35. “In every failure a lot of good things will have happened, and we must acknowledge them.”
36. “We all have the ability to come from nothing to something.”
37. “How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.”
38. “The bottom line is that life is one big mind game. The only person you are playing against is yourself.”
39. “It’s going to be hard work, discipline, and the non-cognitive skills – hard work, dedication, sacrifice – that will set you apart.”
40. “The worst thing that can happen to a man is to become civilized.”
41. “I thought I’d solved a problem when really I was creating new ones by taking the path of least resistance.”
42. “Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim at what you are willing to earn.”
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.”
44. “I believe we are all capable of ‘achieving greatness,’ but the problem is that most of us don’t want to do the work.”
45. “You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”
46. “Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.”
47. “You have to build calluses on your brain just like how you build calluses on your hands.”
48. “If you can get through doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness.”
49. “The truth is, racism and bigotry still exist, and some people are so thin-skinned they refuse to admit that.”
50. “My work ethic is the single most important factor in all of my accomplishments.”
51. “It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”
52. “Know why you’re in the fight to stay in the fight! And never forget that all emotional and physical anguish is finite!”
53. “You gotta start your journey. It may suck, but eventually you will come out the other side on top.”
54. “Greatness pulls mediocrity into the mud. Get out there and get after it.”
55. “There is no more time to waste. Hours and days evaporate like creeks in the desert.”
56. “The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.”
57. “The path to success will leave you callused, bruised, and very tired. It will also leave you empowered.”
58. “You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people. Period.”
59. “You cannot be afraid to disappoint people. You have to live the life you want to live.”
60. “The only thing more contagious than a good attitude is a bad one.”
61. “If you’re willing to suffer, and I mean suffer, your brain and body once connected together, can do anything.”
62. “You can tolerate doubt as a backseat driver, but if you put doubt in the pilot’s seat, defeat is guaranteed.”
63. “Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.”
64. “Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?”
65. “It takes but one positive thought, when given a chance to survive and thrive, to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”
66. “No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you”
67. “You are rewarded in this world based on the value that you give to it.”
68. “You have to be willing to suffer. I don’t have a prodigy gene. I had to work for this”
69. “Nothing was as hard for me as learning – the kitchen table became my all-day, all-night study hall.”
70. “It will always be up to you to find the lesson in every shitty situation and use it to become stronger, wiser, and better.”
71. “The biggest key to success in anything you do is you’ve got to have an unlimited supply of this drive and passion.”
72. “Everyone wants a quick fix. You may get results, but they won’t be permanent. The permanent results come from you having to suffer.”
73. “We like to live our lives on social media with lies about ourselves about how great we are. Get to the source! Fix the problem.”
