Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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.
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
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.
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.
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
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.
It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
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.
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
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.
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
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.
If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
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'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.
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
I think Americans are very patriotic.
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
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.
If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.
I made my fair share of mistakes.
One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.
Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.
I had this child, and it destroyed my family.
I have inhaled, exhaled everything.
Political courage is not political suicide.
The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.
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.
Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.
What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.
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.
