BEST David Goggins Books & Quotes of All Time (February 2023)

by Arthur Worsley
M.A. Psychology, Oxford. McKinsey Alum. Founder & Editor at TAoL.

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Contents

1. Who Is David Goggins?

2. The Best David Goggins Books of All Time

3. More Books Like David Goggins's Books

4. Best David Goggins Quotes

5. Wish There Was a Faster/Easier Way?

Who Is David Goggins?

David Goggins (born February 17, 1975) is an American ultramarathon runner, ultra-distance cyclist, triathlete, public speaker, and author. He is a retired United States Navy SEAL and former United States Air Force Tactical Air Control Party member who served in the Iraq War. His memoir, Can't Hurt Me, was released in 2018.

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The Best David Goggins Books of All Time

Why these best David Goggins books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best David Goggins books ever published as decided by book lovers like you.

And if you think something's missing? I LOVE book recommendations so if there are any other books by David Goggins that you think deserve mentioning, email me and I’ll be sure to include them in the next round of updates.

Until then, here are the best David Goggins books of all time...

Can't Hurt Me - David Goggins (FREE Summary)

Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

Can't Hurt Me is a powerful, uplifting, part-how-to, part-memoir that'll pick you up by your collar, help you take control of your life circumstances and kick your victim mentality to the curb - by endurance athlete and retired Navy SEAL, David Goggins.

Published 2018 // 290 pages // Rated 4.4 over 94,000 reviews on Goodreads

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Best David Goggins Quotes

Here are some of the best David Goggins of all time...

"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

Best David Goggins Quotes: 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.

"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

"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

Best David Goggins Quotes: 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!

"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

"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

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

- David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me

"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

"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

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

- David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me

"The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself."

- David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me

"I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done."

- David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me

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