Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

I'm just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can. I've just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

Individuality' is the key to success.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

The best way to be more like me is to be more like you.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.