Arnold Schwarzenegger on Goals Quotes

"There are 24 hours a day. You sleep six hours and have 18 hours left. Now, I know there are some of you out there that say well, wait a minute, I sleep eight hours or nine hours. Well, then, just sleep faster, I would recommend."

"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way."

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

"If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream."

"You can have the best ship in the world, but if the captain doesn't know where to go, he will just drift around."

"Start wide, expand further, and never look back."

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

"There is no magic pill. There is only the work. You have to do the reps."

"My definition of living is to have excitement always; that's the difference between living and existing."

"It’s simple. If it jiggles, it’s fat. If it doesn’t, it’s muscle. The goal is no jiggle."

"The more you visualize the goal, the more comfortable you feel that it’s going to happen."

"When you have a goal, every rep you do, every set you do, brings you one step closer to that goal."

"Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure."

"I always wrote down my goals. It wasn’t enough to just tell myself I wanted to be a movie star. I had to write it down."

"Failure is not the end. Failure is just a rep that didn't go up. You rest, you reset, and you try again."

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

"You have to be hungry. If you are not hungry, you are not going to make it."

"I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have heard that I have a vision for everything I do. That's true. But I also have a vision for how big I can be."

"When you have a vision, you don't need to be pushed. You are pulled by that vision."

"I set a goal to be the greatest bodybuilder of all time, and I did it. I set a goal to be a movie star, and I did it. I set a goal to be Governor, and I did it. It all works the same way."

"If you don't have a vision of where you are going, if you don't have a goal where you go, you drift around and you never end up anywhere."

"Rest is for the weak. You can sleep when you're dead."

"Don't overthink. If you think too much, the mind gets in the way. Just do the work."

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

"Be useful. If you are useful, you will never be bored, you will never be lost, and you will always have a purpose."

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

"Don't listen to the naysayers. If I had listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling."

"It is not about the body. It is about the mind. It is about the visualization. It is about the goal."

"I welcome the pain because I know that the pain is necessary to be a champion."

"I didn't just want to be a bodybuilder, I wanted to be the best bodybuilder in the world."

"I hate Plan B. It's extremely important that you don't have a Plan B because you are cutting yourself off from the chance of really succeeding."

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

"Have a vision, trust yourself, break some rules, ignore the naysayers, don't be afraid to fail."