Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

There is no gain without struggle.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

The right way is the hard way.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

It's not going to be easy, it's going to be worth it.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

I've learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

I had to work at everything.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.

The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.

If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.