Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

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.

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

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

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

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.

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

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

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.

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

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

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

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

You have to think outside the box.

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

From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.

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.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

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

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

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.

I'm a competitive bodybuilder; I'm not training just to be healthy. Ninety-five percent of the people training with weights are into this health thing, and it's a different mentality entirely.

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

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

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.

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

The Arabs are terrorists and Israel is making the world a safer place.Well done Israel.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

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

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.