Schwarzenegger Inspirational Quotes

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.

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

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

6 rules to succes: 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.

Never follow the crowd, go where it's empty

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

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 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.

He was massive, a veritable Arnold Schwarzenegger of a cat, with a wide, handsome face and a proud, lionish expression.

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

forgiveness is an act of self-love. Holding on to a traumatic past does nothing but consume your present emotional space.

So is that what’s important to you? To be able to freeze in the middle of a scene and to have somebody give you your line? Wouldn’t it be much better to go through Africa and show them how to dig wells and how to make vegetables grow and inspire them to plant?

Arnold Schwarzenegger had muscles in places where other men don't even have places." -Claus Kleber  

I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

Recasting your story is one of the keys of breaking free from the past. We must abandon the victim narrative and become our own protagonist.

Training was all I could think about. One Sunday when I found the stadium locked, I broke in and worked out in the freezing cold. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning.

Going for a walk, going to the gym, reading, riding your bike, taking a Jacuzzi, I don’t care what you do. If you are stuck, if you are struggling to figure out a clear vision for the life you want, then all I care about is that you make little goals for yourself to start building momentum and that you create time and space every day to think, to daydream, to look around, to be present in the world, to let inspiration and ideas in. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, at least give it a chance to find you.

Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer.

At twenty-one he had arrived in America a penniless bodybuilder, born in an obscure Austrian village, armed only with the immigrant's time-honored weapons of hope, ambition, and an almost supernatural belief in the great American dream. Now, through the traditional virtues of hard work, talent, charm, intelligence, positive mental attitude, and persistence, Arnold Schwarzenegger had become a household name.

We had a strict routine that nothing could change: we'd get up at six, and it would be my job or Meinhard's to get milk from the farm door. When w were a little older and starting to play sports, exercises were added to the chores, and we had to earn our breakfast by doing sit-ups. In the afternoon, we'd finish our homework and chores, and my father would make us practice soccer no matter how bad the weather was.

Which it literally could be. Many of history’s greatest thinkers, leaders, scientists, artists, and entrepreneurs found some of their greatest inspiration going for walks. Beethoven used to take walks carrying blank pages of sheet music and a pencil. The Romantic poet William Wordsworth used to write as he took walks around a lake where he lived. Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle would lecture their students while taking long walks with them, often working out their ideas at the same time. Two thousand years later, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would say, “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” Einstein refined many of his theories about the universe while walking around the Princeton University campus. The writer Henry David Thoreau would say, “The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

There is a lot of evidence for the power of taking a walk to increase creativity, inspire new ideas, and change people’s lives, whoever they are. A 2014 study by researchers at Stanford University showed that walking increased the creative thinking of 100 percent of the study participants who were asked to walk while completing a series of creative tasks. There is a ton of anecdotal evidence as well. Do a quick Google search for the words “walk” and “change,” and you will see an avalanche of articles with titles like “How Taking a Walk Changed My Life.” They’re written by all sorts of people: men and women, young and old, fit and out of shape, students and professionals, American, Indian, African, European, Asian, you name it. Going for a walk helped them change their routines and their habits; it helped them shake loose solutions to tricky problems; it helped them to process trauma and make big life decisions.

I create space for inspiration by taking a Jacuzzi every night. There’s something about the hot water and the steam, about the hum of the jets and the rush of the bubbles. The feeling of floating, of not being able to feel the weight of my own body, sharpens all my other senses and opens me up to everything around me. The Jacuzzi gives me twenty to thirty minutes of mental clarity. It’s where I do some of my best thinking.

The reality is, when you want something bad enough, and it means enough to you, at some point you have to be willing to reach for the brass ring and not give a fuck about risk anymore. You have to embrace that sometimes the cliché is true: the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward.

If Reg Park, a kid from a small factory town in En-gland, can become Mr. Universe and then a movie star, why couldn't I? If millions of European immigrants can come to America with nothing but a suitcase and a dream and make a life for themselves, why couldn't I' If Ronald Reagan, an actor, can become governor of California, why couldn't I? And if I can do what I did, why can't you?

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different. It’s accepting the past for what it was and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

Once you’ve developed a rhythm with those little daily goals, create weekly and then monthly goals. Instead of zooming in from a broad place, build out your life from this small beginning and let your vision open up in front of you from there. As it does, and the sense of uselessness starts to loosen its grip, that’s when you take the second step: put the machines away and create space and time in your life, however small or short in the beginning, for inspiration to find its way in and for the discovery process to happen.

Forgiving too easily can lock you into unhealthy patterns that can last for years.

If I forgive them, that means they’re right and I’m wrong.

no matter how much they suffered, they always did what was right.

there is always someone in a worse situation,” which allows her to keep things in perspective.

We tend to jump immediately to hate or other negative emotions when someone has wronged us, even if it involves people we love deeply.

I try to heal myself by sending them love instead of anger.

the very act of sharing loving energy with them will come back to me in a healing way.

I will never bring this up again. You are forgiven,

Whether we’s rich or whether we’s poor, or something in between, this earth ain’t no final resting place. So in a way, we all are homeless, just working our way home.

Deb felt as if she had been taken back to her twenty-two-year-old self and cleansed of the pain of that haunting night.

When I wrote that letter, it was for me to forgive my twenty-two-year-old scared, wounded, traumatized self, who had dropped the ball and just moved on with her life because she didn’t know how else to proceed. In many ways, the act of forgiveness was to myself.

there is no right way or one way to forgive. There’s only your way.

as your love for yourself grows, you will be able to let go of what’s happened to you.

Holding on to a traumatic past does nothing but consume your present emotional space.

The one thing that nobody can take away is our ability to decide how we react to those situations.

withholding forgiveness “starts to destroy you, it starts to eat you up.

You can forgive them and still not be okay with them.

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

forgiveness is not a gift you give to others; it’s something you do for yourself—while also not excusing what happened to you.

Surrounding herself with love also means distancing herself from people who might drag her backward

When you forgive a person, you break the ties with their ill deeds that keep you in anguish.

she wasn’t going to sacrifice her future for a past she could not change.

forgiveness is an act of self-love.

Our past mistakes can make us more empathetic, and old losses can make us more compassionate.

Just because you forgive somebody doesn’t mean you have to reconcile with them and let them back in your world. You can forgive them and still not be okay with them.

The goal was not to have the same closeness we had growing up; rather, it was about being able to make amends and move forward. I call this kind of forgiveness conscious forgiveness—a conscious choice we make and remake over the course of our lives to forgive and move on.

It took time for her to realize that forgiveness is not a gift you give to others; it’s something you do for yourself—while also not excusing what happened to you.

forgiveness is not about releasing the person who hurt you from their responsibility; it’s about releasing yourself from the trauma.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.” —Maria Edgeworth

I think the whole concept of forgiving people is egocentric and egotistical. This is why this discussion is so difficult to have—because I understand that my forgiving someone else isn’t about my relationship with that person. It’s about my relationship with myself. I am willing to let go of anger, because letting go of that anger is going to make me feel happier. That’s really what the whole discussion of forgiveness is about. It’s not between you and that person—it’s between you and yourself.

As Denver said, “Whether we’s rich or whether we’s poor, or something in between, this earth ain’t no final resting place. So in a way, we all are homeless, just working our way home.

that forgiveness is an act of self-love. Holding on to a traumatic past does nothing but consume your present emotional space.

Forgiving too easily can lock you into unhealthy patterns that can last for years. By not properly addressing an issue or event, we avoid things we actually need to confront. We bury things that should, in fact, be unearthed, and we protect people who need to be given boundaries. I’ve learned that forgiveness can sometimes make you feel weak and other times can make you feel strong. It can trap you or it can set you free.

The anger welled up inside her again—anger for the shooter who took her son from her. “I think we love to blame when something happens to us. The first thing we say normally is, ‘Oh, whose fault is this? Who can I blame?’ And of course Adam Lanza and his mom were the natural targets, because, well, Adam was the perpetrator and his mom gave him the gun. Yes, he’s responsible for the tragedy; however, is it really all his fault?

Rather than shifting all the blame onto the Lanzas, Scarlett chose to look at the incident more broadly and examine her own role in a society that allowed this incident to occur. “I take my part of the responsibility for what’s happening in our schools and in our society. I lived in the town that cultivated Adam Lanza; he had a lifetime of pain.

Having empathy for Adam allowed Scarlett to become part of the solution. In her journey, she learned that there are two kinds of people in this world: “There are good people who want to be part of the solution, who are trying to implement social and emotional learning, and then there are good people in pain. And that’s what I see Adam Lanza as. Did he want to grow up to be a mass murderer? No way. That was the result of neglect and pain and disconnection. If we had given him the skills and the tools to be able to choose a better, happier path, doesn’t it make sense he would have chosen that?

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different. It’s accepting the past for what it was and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.” —Oprah Winfrey

Jesse, shortly before he died—no one saw him do this—wrote three words: ‘nurturing, healing, love.’ I stopped when I saw that, and I knew instantly that if Adam Lanza, the shooter, had been able to give and receive nurturing, healing, and love, the tragedy would never have happened. It’s pretty simple. And it was in that way that I started to feel compassion for him.

For her, 'I apologize' is about taking responsibility for your own actions, while 'I'm sorry' doesn't adequately acknowledge your role in the wrongdoing or indicate that you intend to change your ways.

Doctor,” my mother was saying, “all the other boys, Arnold’s friends, when I go to their homes, they have girls hanging on their walls. Posters, magazines, colored pictures of girls. And look at him. Naked men.” “Frau Schwarzenegger,” said the doctor, “there is nothing wrong. Boys always need inspiration. They will look to their father, and many times this is not enough because he’s the father, so they will look also to other men. This is actually good; nothing for you to worry about.

whole discussion of forgiveness is about. It’s not between you and that person—it’s between you and yourself.” Instead of using the word “forgiveness,” Sue prefers to focus on other words, such as “balance,” “integration,” “recovery,” and “empathy.” She believes that all of us on earth

Forgiving too easily can lock you into unhealthy patterns that can last for years. By not properly addressing an issue or event, we avoid things we actually need to confront. We bury things that should, in fact, be unearthed, and we protect people who need to be given boundaries.