Quotes by 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.”

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

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

“We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. Theres 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.”

“When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength”

“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.”

“Its simple, if it jiggles, its fat.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Ive seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.”

“When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.”

“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.”

“As you know, I dont need to take any money from anybody.”

“As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.”

“I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting government off your back, lowering taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, What party is he? My friend said, Hes a Republican. I said, Then I am a Republican!”

“I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.”

“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesnt matter.”

“There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.”