Top 350 Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I am what I am – which is I have aged.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

152. “I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

153. “I love it when people say that something can’t be done. That’s when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

154. “I never listen that you can’t.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

155. “It all comes from the mind. I’ve seen the most incredible success stories because a person had a dream and it was so powerful no one could touch it. He’d feel it, believe it, think about it all day and night. That would inspire him to do things necessary to get the results he wanted.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

156. “I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don’t stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

157. “99% of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

158. “Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

159. “I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me, when I daydream, it’s almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don’t have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I’m there, that it’s just a matter of time.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

160. “We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

161. “Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

162. “Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

163. “I think actions speak louder than words. You can do all the hyping you want. It doesn’t mean anything.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

164. “It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

165. “I think there are some people that are capable of making a sequel more special than the original. And we have seen that when the original Terminator came out, then Jim Cameron outdid himself with the sequel. Then it became the highest grossing movie of the year when it came out in 1991.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

166. “In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

167. “When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

168. “I know now why you cry, but it’s something I can never do.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

169. “Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

170. “People say, My God, you’re so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

171. “Kurt Marnul can win Mr. Austria,” I thought, “and he’s already told me that I could too if I train hard, so that’s what I’m going to do.” This thought made the hours of lifting tons of steel and iron actually a joy. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning Mr. Austria and entering the Mr. Europe competition.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

172. “To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

173. “I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

174. “But no matter what you do in life, selling is a part of it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

175. “Don’t be afraid to fail.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

176. “You cannot get tired if you’re interested in what you do. That’s the key thing.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

177. “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

178. “Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

179. “And you know something, because everything that I’ve gotten – my career, my money, my family; everything that I’ve gotten and achieved is because of California.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

180. “Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

181. “Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

182. “Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

183. “If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

184. “Posing is a performing art.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

185. “I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

186. “As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

187. “Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

188. “I think most of my lessons come from sports. That’s why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it’s where you learn about discipline. It’s where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can’t make it, you can.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

189. “Bodybuilders and fitness people have been using chiropractic very extensively in order to stay healthy and fit. I found it was better to go to a chiropractor before you get injured. We are a perfect team, the world of fitness and the world of chiropractors.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

190. “The words “I Can’t” should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

191. “Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

192. “Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

193. “I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

194. “I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that’s what it was in the ’70s, that’s what I did.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

195. “If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

196. “Don’t be economic Girlie-Men.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

197. “More often than not, a lack of progress in your muscle-building efforts can be linked to nutritional shortcomings in your diet.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

198. “I found the best way is to use Chiropractors, not only after injury, but also before injury.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

199. “I never argued with people who underestimated me. If the accent and the muscles and the movies made people think I was stupid, it worked to my advantage.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

200. “Desire something and don’t just care what you have to go through to get it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger