Quotes by Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Strength is not in avoiding fear, but in facing it head on and conquering it.
• The pain you feel today is the strength you'll feel tomorrow.
• Strength comes not from winning, but from struggling and rising each time we fall.
• If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
• If it bleeds, we can kill it.
• If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.
• We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
• 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.
• The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
• The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
• There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
• The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.
• Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
• The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.
• 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.
• When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
• Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.
• I'll be back.
• 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.
• I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
• To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.
• My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
• In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
• It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
• Maria is the best reason to come home.
• Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
• Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
• 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.
• 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.
• In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
• 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.
• No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
• One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
• Political courage is not political suicide.
• Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
• My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
• I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
• I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.
• I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
• I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.
• I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
• I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
• 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.
• I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
• I have inhaled, exhaled everything.
• I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
• I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.
• 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.
• I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
• Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
• 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.
• I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
• I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
• Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
• And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.
• As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
• Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
• Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
• Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
• 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.
• Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
• Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, you cannot fully live without passion.
• Strength doesn't come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
• The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.
• Successful people build each other up. They motivate, inspire, and push each other.
• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is true strength.
• Strength does not come from winning. It comes from struggle and growth.
• Do not be afraid of being different, be afraid of being like everyone else.
• Life is like photography, you need the negatives to develop.
• The only way to discover your limits is to push them; only then will you truly know your strength.
• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.
• Strength comes not from avoiding struggles but from facing them head-on and emerging stronger on the other side.
• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, one cannot live a fulfilled life without passion.
• Strength comes not from winning, but from enduring every defeat with grace.
• The struggles we face today develop the strengths we need for tomorrow.
• Dream big, work hard, stay humble.
• Strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardships, yet still standing tall.
• Strength comes not from avoiding struggles, but from facing them head on and emerging stronger on the other side.
• True strength is not in avoiding weaknesses, but in embracing and overcoming them.
• The human spirit is stronger than any obstacle it encounters.
• Strength doesn't come from avoiding struggles, but from facing them head on and emerging victorious.
• Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire first.
• 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
• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength.
• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength
• Do not just go through life, grow through life.
• Strength doesn't come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.
• In every moment of decision, our shape and destiny are created
• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and let success be your noise.
• A successful failure is worth more than a mediocre success
• Success is not given, it is earned; so dream big, work hard, and never give up.
• Don't dream of success, work for it.
• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger.
• Your only limit is your mind
• Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
• Strength doesn't come from winning. Strength comes from struggles and hardships that you overcome.
• Success is not given, it is earned
• Success is not built on success, it is built on the lessons learned from failure.
• Success is not built on success, but on failure and determination.
• Strength does not come from wining. Your struggles develop your strengths.
• Do not ask for an easy life, ask for the strength to face all your difficulties.
• No pain, no gain
• No pain, no gain.
• Success is not built on success but on failure, frustration, and setbacks.
• Yesterday you said tomorrow, so start today.
• Your only limit is your mind.
• Do not fear failure, fear being in the exact same place as you were a year ago.
• It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the mind that should be celebrated.
• Success is not an accident, it's a result of dedication and hard work.
• Do not pray for an easy life, pray to be a strong person.
• Success is not an accident, it is the result of hard work and perseverance.
• The key to success is to focus on goals and not obstacles.
• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and let success chase you.
• When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, but make sure it's the best damn lemonade anyone has ever tasted.
• Dream big, but work harder
• Winners embrace hard work. Losers do it the easy way.
• Strength comes not from winning but from struggles and hardships.
• There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
• Do not pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger person.
• Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets
• Don't wish for an easier life, wish to be a stronger person.
• Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
• Don't fear failure, fear being in the exact same place that you were in a year ago.
• I'd rather attempt do something great and fail than to have never tried at all.
• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and never ever give up.
• When nothing goes right, go lift heavy weights
• Dream big and dare to fail, for who you remember anyways?
• The only way to get a flute to stop playing is to feed it sweets.
• Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, every time.
• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people who motivate you to be your best self.
• Dream big and dare to fail, scratch that - you must fail in order to succeed
• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people, because anything is possible.
• You haven't failed until you stop trying.
• Become addicted to fulfilling your dreams, not your fears.
• The beauty of life is found in unexpected adventures and well-prepared snacks.
• Do everything seriously, except yourself
• Just remember, you can't reach for your goals with your hands in your pockets.
• Do not allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence
• Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets!