Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

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

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

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.

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

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

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I’m not perfect.

I’ll be back.

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

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

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.

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

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

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

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.

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

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

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

Political courage is not political suicide.

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