Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
I never listen that you can’t.
What we face may look insurmountable, but I learned something from all those years of training and competing: I learned not to run away from a challenge because I feared it. That’s how we overcome adversity. A crisis reveals character.
The most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump.
Forget Plan B. It distracts from Plan A.
I didn’t come here to lose or look pretty. I came here to win.
I never stop working. If you want to be the best, you can’t stop working.
Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes part 2
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
I didn’t mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.
You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion.
If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.
Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?
You must have vision, passion, and a work ethic, and you must believe in yourself.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
The more you learn, the more you grow.
When I look in the mirror, I throw up.
Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to help others.
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
You’ll get found not when you’re looking for it, but when you’re working hard.
I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.
We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There’s really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.
I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
If there’s one thing in this world I hate, it’s losers.
I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
The six rules of success are: Trust yourself, break some rules, don’t be afraid to fail, ignore the naysayers, work like hell, and give something back.
You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The day you start lifting is the day you become forever small. You will forever be the guy who used to lift heavier weights.
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way. I hope it never will.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.
Austria is not Australia.
I’m always interested in pushing the boundaries and doing new things, whether it’s in fitness or film or philanthropy or whatever it may be.
Even though there are obstacles on the way, I still always think I can make it.
The body is very important, but the mind is more important than the body.
Remember: Break the rules, not the law.
I saw a woman at the gym who is much more impressive than me. And she invited me to train with her.
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.