“You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“While you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.”
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
“Trust yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.”
“You have to remember something: everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
“I'll be back.”
“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else and avoid trouble?”
“Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.”
“You can have results or excuses. Not both.”
“Don’t be afraid to fail. Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. ”
“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”
“If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”
“If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.”
“You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision. And you know that it is the right thing to do and success will come.”
“The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.”
“I always believed in leaving no stone unturned. ”
“From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body. I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done, so the challenge appealed to me.”
“All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.”
“Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”
“If it bleeds, we can kill it.”
“I didn't want to just be a body building champion. I wanted to be the best body builder of all time. ”
“When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.”
“So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.”
“Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.”
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.”
“You have to think outside the box.”
“Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.”
“Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.”
“Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.”
“The secret of success is to make your mind work for you – not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet – either today, next week, or next month etc.”
“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.”
“The pain that you hold is yours. There is not a single pain quite like it. Nobody else on God’s green earth can feel this pain, or have the indescribable feeling of pride you will have when you overcome it. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.”
“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”
“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.”
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
“It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you’re too well behaved and don’t want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That’s what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?”
“Where the mind goes the body will follow.”
“The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.”
“Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself.”
“My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.”
“I’ve heard all my life that ‘this is impossible, you can’t make’ it and ‘you’re going to fail’ but I didn’t listen to them and I made it.”
“The mind is incredible. Once you’ve gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.”
“Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.”
“Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.”
“There are no shortcuts – everything is reps, reps, reps.”
“The more knowledge you have, the more you’re free to rely on your instincts.”
“If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.”
“I’m not looking for sympathy at all.”
“I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.”
“I make my protein drink with whiskey. People think I’m crazy, but that’s the way I am. I get stoned, I do my own thing.”
“Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.”
“Some information I just keep to myself.”
“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 have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want.”
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”
“If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.”
“If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.”
“I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.”
“I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.”
“Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.”
“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.”
“You never want to fail because you didn’t work hard enough.”
“I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.”
“Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I’ll take the Glock.”
“You can’t be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.”
“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.”
“All exercises that you do with your own bodyweight are great.”
“I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.”
“I like the color red because it’s a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.”
“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.”
“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”
“Discipline is what you use when you don’t want to do something, when you have to force yourself.”
“The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.”
“I had a clear vision of myself winning the Mr. Universe contest. It was a very spiritual thing, in a way, because I had such faith in the route, the path, that there was never a question in my mind that I would make it.”
“That is not a drug. It’s a leaf.”
“I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, ‘How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?’ It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.”
“You’ll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.”
“My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.”
“Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they’re overweight, they’re insecure, because they don’t understand that I don’t look at women the same way I look at myself.”
“Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.”
“Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.”
“The message I am trying to get across is exactly this: Protecting the environment does not require us to be against large SUVs or trucks. Instead we should develop technology to cut down greenhouse gas emissions because that is where the action is – it’s not about what the size of the car is.”
“We’ve got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it’s not even an option, it’s a necessity to have a chiropractor. As much as it is a necessity to have a dentist, if you have a dentist for the family, you should have your chiropractor for the family.”
“I think Americans are very patriotic.”
“I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.”
“I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That’s why I tell parents that the schools can’t do it all themselves. The parents can’t come home from work and turn on the TV. That’s not being a good parent.”
“I was always dreaming about very powerful people. Dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years. Even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years.”
“You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn’t exist.”
“I don’t criticize myself; I criticize my body.”
“Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.”
“The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.”
“As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.”
“Obviously, I’ve made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that’s the way I always was.”
“Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.”
“I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.”
“One of my movies was called ‘True Lies.’ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.”
“You’re always as good as your last movie and that’s the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you’re hot; if you’re successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you’re hot. But if you’re not successful, then things go south very quickly.”
“Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.”
“To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don’t be economic girlie men!”
“The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.”
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