Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.

Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.

Every experience I have benefits me. I am in the process of positive change.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.