It doesn’t matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams

I made my fair share of mistakes

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman

After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass.

I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn’t need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn’t like.

As we get older the muscle structure tends to atrophy at a faster and faster rate. The ideal remedy for this is bodybuilding

You have to build the ultimate physical machine, but also the ultimate mind

I set out to be the best and I am

What I’m doing is the thing I want to do. I don’t care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me

I always believed in leaving no stone unturned.

Trust yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks

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

I love Thanksgiving turkey… It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

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

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

I never listened to anyone who said I can’t do something.

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.

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.

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

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit.

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.

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

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

Don’t be afraid of making decisions.

What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

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

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

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

Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

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?

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is… The Pump.

Marijuana… That’s not a drug, that’s a plant.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

It’s not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. You’ll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you’ll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

I let him go.

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

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me, pain is a pleasure.

From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become. The more reps you do, the better your body.

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

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

You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

I never felt that I was good enough, strong enough, smart enough. He let me know that there was always room for improvement. A lot of sons would have been crippled by his demands, but instead the discipline rubbed off on me. I turned it into drive

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

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.

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

There are no shortcuts. Everything is reps, reps, reps.

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

Your clothes. Give them to me. Now.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

People who say it is impossible, should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.

Dreams are for dreamers. Goals are for achievers.

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it’s empty.

You’re a funny guy Sully, I like you. That’s why I’m going to kill you last.

The mind is incredible. Once you’ve gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. I can’t… should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

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

Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision, the beautiful vision, that creates the want power.

I’ll be back!

Whenever I finished filming a movie, I felt my job was only half done. Every film had to be nurtured in the marketplace. You can have the greatest movie in the world, but if you don’t get it out there, if people don’t know about it, you have nothing.

I was always dreaming about very powerful people – dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered.

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.

When the boys come, instead of buying Barbie dolls, all of a sudden you’re into trucks and remote controls, cars and tanks. You buy building blocks and build castles and locomotives. You get into knives and later take them shooting with pistols, shotguns, and rifles. All of which made me very happy.

I never listen that you can’t.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

He had to split.

You cannot get tired if you’re interested in what you do. That’s the key thing.

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

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn’t, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.

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.

Have a vision, trust yourself, break some rules, ignore the naysayers, don’t be afraid to fail.

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.

So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.

I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now, I’m very hungry!

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.

The more knowledge you have, the more you’re free to rely on your instincts.

You have to remember something. Everybody pities the weak. Jealousy you have to earn.

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

All exercises that you do with your own body weight are great.

DO IT. DO IT NOW!

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

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.

What a pain in the neck.

My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.

Life’s six rules for success. 1. Trust yourself. 2. Break some rules. 3. Don’t be afraid to fail. 4. Ignore the naysayers. 5. Work like hell. 6. Give something back.

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

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

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is a purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt – just absolute confidence.

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.

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

My only rule is to keep moving, for a pump and cardio at the same time. Rest as little as possible. After an hour, you will feel fantastic and your muscles won’t know what hit them.

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

Come with me if you want to live.

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

Stop whining.

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

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

The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body

Consider that a divorce!

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

None of my rules of success will work unless you do.

The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts – not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It’s like you have a little BMW – you want to race the hell out of this car because you know it’s just going 110. But if you see guys driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in every field.

Let off some steam.

I’m not into politics, I’m into survival.

My definition of living is to have excitement always. That’s the difference between living and existing.

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It’s meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That 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.

Political courage is not political suicide.

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.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

Life may be full of pain but that’s not an excuse to give up.

Obviously, I’ve made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that’s the way I always was.

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

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, expect to win.

If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.

It took many months in court, but the tabloid eventually published a total retraction and paid substantial damages in an out-of-court settlement. The money went to the Special Olympics in Great Britain.

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

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Here’s your Sub-Zero… now plain zero.

Rest, let your body relax and grow. Work up gradually and don’t blow it. Sometimes you can do so much your mind gets sick of it. Remember what I said earlier. Keep your mind hungry. People have a tendency to overdo things at first and then slack off.

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

You have to think outside the box.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself because if you don’t, no one else will.

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

Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself, and go beyond limitations.

To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.

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.

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

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don’t stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.