V.I. Arnold Quotes

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Trust yourself,..dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

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

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

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.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento I will pump up Sacramento.

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

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.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

The more money the louder it talks.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.