Quotes About Success

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid to fail.

To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.

Every morning you have two options. Continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.

I always believed in shooting for the top, and to become an American is like becoming a member of the winning team.

Dreams are for the dreamers. Goals are for achievers.

I'd hear guys bragging about their new Gulfstream IV or IV-SP, and then I'd get to say, "That's great, guys. Let me talk about my 747 . . ." It was a great conversation stopper.

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. I hope it never will.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

Once you see results, it becomes an addiction.

Kurt Marnul can win Mr. Austria," I thought, "and he's already told me that I could too if I train hard, so that's what I'm going to do." This thought made the hours of lifting tons of steel and iron actually a joy. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning Mr. Austria and entering the Mr. Europe competition.

For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to go ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Of course, now I had to show I was worthy, but I didn't feel at all concerned. I would do whatever it took to get there. I didn't share my feelings of pride with anybody. My style was to keep moving and not reflect too much. But it felt great.

Training was all I could think about. One Sunday when I found the stadium locked, I broke in and worked out in the freezing cold. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning.

But no matter what you do in life, selling is a part of it.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

The only way to make the possible possible is to try the impossible. If you fail, so what? That's what everybody expects. But if you succeed, you make the world a much better place.

you work, you make the money, and then you can afford this car; you train and then you win championships. There was no shortcut; you earned it.

I wasn't there to compete. I was there to win.

I aimed to be a leader someday, but I knew it was important to learn obedience as well.

And when you visualize something very clearly, you believe that you 100 percent can get there.

I never argued with people who underestimated me. If the accent and the muscles and the movies made people think I was stupid, it worked to my advantage.

It's human nature to work on the things that we are good at. If you have big biceps, you want to do an endless number of curls because it's so satisfying to see this major bicep flex. To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.