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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

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mean, Bodybuilding, Next Week
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall (1993). “Arnold”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilding, Bad Ass, Anxiety

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding
Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall”, p.614, Simon and Schuster

Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Pain, Bodybuilding, Champion

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilding, Total Recall, Skis
Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilding, Vision, Willpower
Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revis”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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?

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Motivational Sports, Strong, Bodybuilding

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sports, Bodybuilding, Clothes

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Country, Bodybuilding, Careers
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding
"Cable Exclusive: Arnold Schwarzenegger opens up on personal and professional failures". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2012.

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sports, Running, Bodybuilding

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

There are some girls who are turned on by my body, and some others who are turned off. but for the majority i just use it as a conversation piece. like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd street would have a natural conversation piece. then when they get to talking to me they see i am not mean but gentle to them and thats all they want to know

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Girl, Mean, Bodybuilding

I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Exercise, Bodybuilding, Winning

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilding, Years, Issues
Source: www.nbcnews.com

I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sports, Beach, Bodybuilding

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Dream, Bodybuilding, Bad Ass
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Strength, Fitness, Bodybuilding

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilding, Blow, Air
"Pumping Iron". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1977.

Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Real, Bodybuilding, College

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