Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes

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.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

If you don’t believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I like the color red because it’s a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

The tenth or eleventh repetition of Barbell Curls, while your biceps are screaming in agony, may be the only way to develop championship arms.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I don’t walk away from things that I think are unfinished.
- 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.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t have a vision of where you are going, if you don’t have a goal for where to go, you’ll drift around and never end up anywhere.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

My definition of living is to have excitement always; that’s the difference between living and existing.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

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.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn’t mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger