V.I. Arnold Quotes

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Posing is a performing art.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

There is no caste in blood.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none...so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

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

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

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.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

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

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

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.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

If something is wrong with anyone, look first to the stomach.

The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!