Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

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.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

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

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.

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.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

One of my movies was called ‘True Lies.’ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.

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

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

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

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

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

Political courage is not political suicide.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

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

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

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.

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

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

‘I’ll be back’ always sounded a little girly to me.

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

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

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

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

Maria is the best reason to come home.

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

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I’m not perfect.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

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

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

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

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

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

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

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

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

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.