Unleashing Potential: 20 Inspirational Quotes by Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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."

- 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

"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."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Start wide, expand further, and never look back."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything."

- 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. 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

"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

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

- 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. 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

"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

"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

"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."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?"

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If you don’t believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?"

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Good things don’t happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn’t try at all."

- 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

"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."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- 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

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?"

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I can hide my feelings under my muscles. Definitely. I can hide them as long as necessary. And when I feel they can come out, I let them out. I think this is fantastic. It’s great to have control over my mind."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I'll be back."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You’ll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior."