Top 380 Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

202. “My only rule is to keep moving, for a pump and cardio at the same time. Rest as little as possible. After an hour, you will feel fantastic and your muscles won’t know what hit them.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

203. “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

204. “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

205. “My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

207. “It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

208. “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

209. “I had this child, and it destroyed my family.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

210. “I made my fair share of mistakes.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

211. “Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that’s what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can’t go through it, forget it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

212. “It doesn’t matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

213. “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

214. “Don’t be economic Girlie-Men.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

215. “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

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

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

217. “My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

218. “If you have the attitude of a young person and you work like a young person and you keep your body in shape, and if you believe that you can do it, then you can actually make other people also believe that you can do it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

219. “I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

220. “If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

221. “It’s time now to turn this mush into muscles.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

222. “I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn’t bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

223. “Political courage is not political suicide.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

224. “If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

225. “Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you’re King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

226. “Strong on desire but short on smarts, these.”

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227. “Always keep in mind that training stimulates growth, but that actual growth takes place while you are resting.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

228. “I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

229. “I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn’t need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn’t like.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

230. “My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

231. “I’d always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I’m thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

232. “After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

233. “I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

234. “I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

235. “On the airplane, Sly and I were smoking stogies and constantly trading jokes. We never talked about the feud. We were typical guys, totally in denial, as if there had never been any problem and nothing had ever happened.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

236. “It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you’re young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

237. “I’m obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you’ve done everything that you could do to accomplish your work.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

238. “I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

239. “We are going in the direction of artificial intelligence or hybrid intelligence where a part of our brain will get information from the cloud and the other half is from you, so all this stuff will happen in the future.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

240. “Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s – the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

241. “Don’t go where it’s crowded. Go where it’s empty. Even though it’s harder to get there, that’s where you belong and where there’s less competition.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

242. “Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.”

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243. “I’ve seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

244. “Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

245. “My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

246. “My definition of a sport is that it’s a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

247. “I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

248. “I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

249. “I don’t understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I’ve made four movies in Mexico.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

250. “Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger