Top 350 Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If I had listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

52. “You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

53. “The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

54. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

55. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

56. “If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

57. “Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

58. “If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

59. “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?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

60. “The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

61. “Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

62. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

63. “The pain you feel today will be the strenght you feel tomorrow.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

64. “I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

65. “Some information I just keep to myself.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

66. “If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

67. “I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

68. “Discipline is what you use when you don’t want to do something, when you have to force yourself.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

69. “Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

70. “Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

71. “Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I’ll take the Glock.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

72. “I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

73. “Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

74. “You can’t be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

75. “I like the color red because it’s a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

76. “Forget plan B. To test yourself and grow, you have to operate without a safety net.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

77. “Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

78. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

79. “Every morning you have two options. Continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

80. “People who say “it is impossible”, should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

81. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

82. “You’ll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

83. “All exercises that you do with your own bodyweight are great.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

84. “The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

85. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

86. “That is not a drug. It’s a leaf.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

87. “I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

88. “Never follow the crowd. Go where it’s empty.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

89. “I don’t criticize myself; I criticize my body.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

90. “Hasta la vista, baby.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

91. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

92. “My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

93. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

94. “My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

95. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

96. “Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

97. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

98. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

99. “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.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

100. “I think Americans are very patriotic.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger