THE BEST OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH [MOTIVATION 2017]

Have a vision think big ignore the NaySayers Work your ass off and give back and change the world Because if not us who if not now when? What is the secret to success? the long version is that I actually always had five Rules and Everything that I did always Use those five rules and those five rules helped me to become successful in various different areas And I think I believe that those rules can be applied to almost Anyone and everyone you don’t need to be a bodybuilding champion you either need to want to be a [governor] of California [or] to be an action here or anything like that if you want to excel in whatever you do those rules are for you It’s that simple I have to tell you right off the top that I always was [very] intense As a kid the radio it was very intense and it was very hungry

[I] always wanted to be the best I always wanted to be number one I always wanted to get to the top I never believed in just getting by now I have nothing against people that just want to get by because I think there are many roads to happiness But [I] think that we all here like to be successful and we are driven So that’s why those rules apply to you So my first rule is Find your vision and follow it you see I think it’s the most important thing that we have a very clear vision of where we go a goal Where do we go? because you can have The best ship in the world you can have the best cruise liner But if the captain does not know where to go that Ship [will] drift around the world out there that sea and will never end up anywhere And this is exactly the way it is in real life If you don’t have a goal if you don’t have a vision you just drift around you’re not going to be happy This is why it is so important to have that vision now I created that vision in Austria because I grew up after the second world war Austria right along with Germany lost second world War thank God and The problem was [that] everyone was so depressed because they lost the war that there was alcoholism everywhere There was of course depression there was a terrible economic situation that was famine Devastation and all those things and also it was kind of a little place in Narrow I felt kind of I wanted to get out of there I wanted to escape and they couldn’t see myself really do work there [it] [was] stated work in the factory of the work in the farm although even to follow my father’s footsteps [to] become a police officer, [I] couldn’t see that either as a Maverick That’s what my parents wanted me to do they wanted me to become a police officer and the merrier group at the name of Piety And to have a bunch of children and to run around like the von Trapp family in the sound of music [but] [that’s] not what I saw This was the vision of my parents, but not mine and luckily one day in school I watched the documentary about America, and I found myself I knew exactly that is where I wanted to end up I wanted to be in America Everything [that] I saw that the commander just loved everything was so big [I] remember the tall skyscrapers the Monsters Bridges the Giant freeways built with beautiful cars the huge jet liners movie stars Muscle Beach and all those things I could not wait to get them the question was just how do I get there? How do I get to America? [I] mean it’s not all the common thing to do way back in the 50s [no] one had the money to travel or anything But one day

I was fortunate enough See a magazine and that magazine showed me the path to America And it was a bodybuilding magazine an undercover bust is very muscular guy That was standing there like Hercules with the Hercules outfit his name was rich park This rich part was undercover, and I remember the cover said Mr Universe becomes Hercules star I Read the article as fast as I could learning about how he grew up in Leeds in England Poor and how he trained five hours a day? every single day and Trained and trained and trained and lifted weights, and then he finally became Mr Great Britain and then he became Mr

Universe at any one a second Mr [universe] title in the third, Mr [universe] title and then all of a [sudden] he landed in rome in [cinecittà] doing hercules movies And he made millions of [dollars] and this this money he took importance of a gymnasium chain in South Africa, he became a successful Gymnasium owner and as I read I became more and more certain about my own future as I read this story I was so excited some interest that I knew exactly That I wanted to become another reg park I know he laid out the blueprint for my life, basically [I] could see myself I could visualize myself clearly To be a champion on the same stage where he wanted Mr

universe and then to move to America thinking into movies And then become rich and famous [I] had that vision very clearly laid out I was so happy that I knew exactly where I was going From that moment on everything [that] it is no matter how hard I had to work Or how much I had to struggle It didn’t matter it was a wonderful joy right because I knew what the purpose was and I found my passion The simple truth is if you don’t have a vision If you don’t have a goal if you don’t see your future laid out in front of you You’re [just] floating around without the purpose, and I think that the numbers speak for themselves This is why so many people [around] the world unhappy with their jobs [I] mean in America [74] [percent] of the people hate their job and would like to change jobs But think about that that means that only a quarter [of] the Americans love the life’s work I mean that is a [very] depressing statistic I Always smile when the world no matter how hard I work I always had a great time no matter what I did it did matter [wasn’t] Bodybuilding or it was the [movies] [of] it was as governor I remember in the pumping iron days People asked me in the gym all the time Why are you smiling all the time? Why are you so happy you have to live 50 tons of weights you have to train five hours a day I mean, I look at the other body bullets faces and lifters faces, and they look kind of depressing they look sour They’re miserable that they have to lift weights You don’t look miserable You look happy and I tell them over to the I smile because I know exactly that happy rep that I do That every set that I do every way that

I live to get one step closer To turning that vision of mind in the reality of becoming that Mr Universe I could not wait to lift another five [hundred] thousand the squats I could not wait to do another thousand sit-ups [I] could not wait to do bench press more bench press and more girls until I couldn’t move my arms Anymore because I knew that every rep got me closer for standing on that stage as a champion So matter of fact when I lifted weighs, I didn’t really feel like I was lifting weights [I] felt like I was lifting a trophy over my head each time I lifted and to have all those body builders around me and thousands of people [screaming] And I tell you that this vision didn’t just help me in bodybuilding It helped me get everything like I said I remember in the movie business There was many times stunts that [they] had to do we all got hurt that was in pain and agony [I] had to do it over and over again I remember one incident specifically on Conan the Barbarian there there I was crawling on all four on rocks over rocks and gravel Holding my sword right in front of me and as I was crawling the camera followed me there was around thirty feet that the troll endures rocks in his gravel and eventually after ten takes my elbows my knees started bleeding and hurting and The director came to me sheepishly and said to me is you mind if we do another take? [I] need a close-up of you, and I said them no I don’t mind at all as they go into as many takes us you want This is none I don’t want to do it because I know you’re in pain You’re bleeding

I said no, no, I don’t feel any pain I say the only thing I see is the finished scene I see the finished scene of me crawling on all four with my sword in the front crawling up and sneaking up behind Salsa tune the main villain of the Conan movie that killed my parents and Rising up behind him and cutting his head off That’s what I see Remember crush your enemies see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the women So this is why because I visualized that scene this is why I did not feel [that] pain I did not care if I was bleeding on my knees because I know That pain is temporary But the film is permanent, and I explained that to the director So this is why I try to tell you always discover your vision and the rest will [follow] Now my second my second rule is never ever think small If you’re going to accomplish anything you have to think big you have to go and shoot for the stars The biggest challenge most people have is because they think small The reason why people think small invited to choose small little goals is because they are afraid [to] fail they know That if you shoot for big goal Then the chances of failing are very high and they are afraid of failing There’s one of the most common things my people are frozen it by the kid [might] make a move in life Because they [are] scared of failing [I] say to myself hey, I’m not worried about failing because that’s part of life You’re not going to be going win everything and how far can you fall look at this is the ground That’s as far as I can fall and you know something That the only time you really consider the failure is if you fall and you don’t get up But if you get up you never consider the failure, so I never considered myself a failure I always consider myself a winner even though Fl every so often but I always got up and they always move forward This is the important thing I never had any patients of course force me thinking small because in German we were saying ven chung Tension and that means that if it is something thing go all out and do it well This is not just a case in bodybuilding I didn’t just want to be [a] bodybuilding champion I wanted to be the greatest particles of all times I wanted that the most muscle They’re the most most of all time the most definition

I wanted to win the most trophies the most world championship titles I just wanted to be the best and the same as also movies [I] didn’t just think about being in movies No, I wanted to be [a] movie star [I] wanted to have a pasta title building I wanted to become the highest paid entertainer [I] faced if you wanted to be another John Wayne What’s wrong with that, and then the same is in politics? I didn’t just want to go and be in politics and Enter a race for City Council [I] Mean let’s be honest does it sound right Schwarzenegger City Council No [command]? Not even sworn against mayor

No it had to be schwarzenegger running for governor but not just any governor a governor of the greatest state [in] United States of California that was the important thing I Give you an example of picture thinking big when I became governor I wanted to rebuild California’s ancient Infrastructure you see America has been living off infrastructure That was built in the 50s and 60s [and] it drives me absolutely insane that America hasn’t started rebuilding that infrastructure I mean we haven’t Invested in new roads or in new transit and schools or in energy or anything like that for decades? The number of cars that we have not in America of four times as many as we had in the 60s so therefore We should be having four times as many freeways four times as many tunnels for them as many bridges and orders But we don’t so this is why I wanted to get our act together and do the upgrading least in California so when I talk about infrastructure I didn’t really want to just fix roads and things [enclose] some holes and the roads I Wanted to build massive free base on top of freeways I wanted to build the first high speed Rail in the [United] States [I] wanted to build more bridges and more tunnels more on ramps and off ramps [I] wanted to see literally cranes everywhere Well there was no excuse for californians to get stuck in traffic And there was no excuse really to send you kids in overcrowded classrooms and schools and it was also No excuse that Los Angeles has a hundred-year-old sewage system That’s shitty [I] thank you first of course some of the legislators looked at me like I was absolutely insane when I told him this vision They were willing to spend maybe five billion dollars which of course is petty cash and compared to what my vision was But some some politicians of course at the [heart] and to see the big picture Because they didn’t really ever travel outside, California, so they haven’t really seen big infrastructure They’ve really seen big infrastructure all over the united [States] or maybe in Asia in China In Korea or in brazil or in European countries or here in Australia maybe so they haven’t seen that and then of course [there] [are] other politicians that simply don’t have a vision of The future past the next election which is a common problem politicians have all over the world So it is because my job as governor to motivate them and to take them and to see the traffic change in Los Angeles and to see the Overcrowded classrooms and to see all the problems that you have with [a] kid pushing and pushing and a pump them up enough that eventually They saw the big picture [and] eventually democrats and republicans came together and be invested [60] billion dollars to rebuild California’s infrastructure the biggest investment of our state in 15 years so that’s what we did because We [had] a big vision and everyone bought in on this big vision so remember never [think] small thanks, Big a Third Rule is ignore the NaySayers I think it is natural thinking you have the big fish and big dreams And you have big [cores] that [people] are going to say around you I don’t think it can be done

I think it’s impossible [or] no, I tell you hear this all the time But I want to tell you don’t ever let them stop you from dreaming and from shooting for the big score Because eliminate just simply those words no Impossible and it can’t be done I mean [in] each one of my careers when someone said it’s impossible I heard it’s possible and someone said it can’t be done I heard it can be done and when someone said no, then I heard loud [and] clear Yes So this is what I believe I am a big believer with Nelson mandela said he said it always seems to be impossible Until someone does it and that’s exactly what it [is] And I wanted to beat that one that does it I wanted to break the new records And I wanted to do something [that] no one else has ever done So I think that’s what you need to do don’t ever be worried about that someone hasn’t done it Just think about how [many] times my career would have stopped My career would have ended if I would have listened to the naysayers [I] mean it started right away when I was 15 years old, and I became a bodybuilder right instead happened I said I want to be a world champion in bodybuilding I want to be Mr Universe The immediate Listen are you crazy? You in Austria in Austria, you can become a ski champion or Bicycle Champion or something like that, but bodybuilding is an American sport forget about it It’s nuts Then when I wanted to move [to] America, they said again, that’s impossible [you] [will] never be able to do that if from the money you offer yourself [then] when I wanted to go into show business After I won 13 world championship titles in bodybuilding [I]? Said I want to be like reg park I want to be hercules I want to get into movies Well, I tell you when I made those agents and managers and studio executives their reaction was Oh honor, that is so funny Haha you want [to] be what a leading man

[oh], come on I mean look First of all let’s start with your body look at your body I mean [your] overdevelopment [you’re] gigantic You’re like a monster Are you kidding me? You know what the news thing the new trend is is little guys like Dustin Hoffman al pacino Woody allen those are the new sex symbols don’t you get it and then? [your] accent

Oh, it gives me the chills just listening to your german bullshit Come on now I mean oh, God I mean, it’s a good scary when you talk It’s unbelievable I mean have you ever? Arnold [I] mean this year’s have you ever seen an International movie star with a german accent it doesn’t happen To get about that, and then you name What is it’s [worth] little [or] something like that? Yeah, I can see best [name] already I stand a billboard

Yes And people are going to storm the beer and the movie houses because what this barring in the movie Oh yeah, I can see that already So that’s what they say This is [immunization] forget about that You’re a nice guy I mean Your bodybuilding champion Dasyam or helpless or something like that? Helpful besides, and let me get the other side some little pods like maybe playing a bouncer I mean with your body perfect or maybe a wrestler [oh], I have a good idea with you action the NazI officer now That’s really great for you

I call my buddies over at Hogan’s heroes [I] mean, they would probably use someone like you so that’s what they said Imagine that Everywhere I turned they said no it won’t happen [it’s] not going to happen and forget about it luckily I did not listen I did not listen because I knew if I worked hard enough And I grew up those hard as I did [embody] [willing] 5 6 hours a day That I will make it that I could prove them wrong, and I started working very hard I started taking acting classes English classes speech classes [dialog] classes even accent removal classes I Ran around all day saying lines like a fine wine Rose and a vine Because you see the austrians and germans have a difficult time with that be and with the [w] and [did] the f we get it? all mixed up, so [it] was a fine wine grows on a vine, or the sink is made out of [the] zinc and [all] those kind of lines is it a window when you know something all of a sudden I got a little break in the early 70s I remember All of a sudden I got a TV show a little [pot] then another little pot And then all of a sudden, I got a phone call from Lucille ball to be in her special Happy [anniversary] and goodbye Which was been odd connie

I had the 6-minute seen as an Italian masseur That most people don’t know the difference between an Italian accent in the German accent So I got away with my german accent, but I played this Italian monsieur And I was so delighted and then right after that I got a guest starring role in streets of San Francisco With Michael douglas and Tom [Walden] and then pumping on and stay hungry And then of [course] I landed the big role at Conan the Barbarian [so] finally I got the big big break And you know what was so interesting about it was that soon as we were finished with the Conan movie We were out there and a promotion to him and the director said that the press conference the directors John Milius He said if he would have had schwarzenegger with those muscles We would have had to build one Now think about that Before it was this huge obstacle To have this body and all of a sudden the director says if we wouldn’t have actual Saga with his body We would have had to build one Now water turnarounds, and then when I did terminator James Cameron said which was really great he said the [albie] [backline] became one of the most famous movie lines in history because of Arnold’s crazy accent because he sounded like a machine when it all So as you see everything that the NaySayers said was a liability Became an absence in the same was also in my political career when I ran for [governor] They immediately said I shouldn’t do it It is a big mistake It won’t happen I will lose and all those kind of things in the rest of course is history the bottom line is if I were to Listen to the Naysayers my career would have ended then it was 15 years old [I] will be still yodeling in Austria in the alps and I would not be talking yet the day to you And the reason why I’m here today and talking to you is is because [they] did not listen to you can so it’s impossible [no], so I just recommend it very strongly Ignore than they say us My fourth rule is drop your ass off nobody ever stumbled upon success for accident except maybe the guy who found gold in California But they’ll never think that you can be that guy I mean idiom you never want to fail because he didn’t work hard enough [I] always believed no stone unturned Work your butt off

That’s what I always believed the matter What do you do work work work? I remember muhammad Ali one of my great heroes And a great line in the 70s when [he] said when he was asked, how many sit-ups do you do? He says I don’t know because I [started] counting only when it starts burning When it starts burning that’s when it starts counting you see that’s what makes you a champion It doesn’t matter in what area you in no, pain no gain The bottom Line is one of my rules Which is work your butt off if you don’t apply that rule all the other rules won’t mean anything [I] mean it drives me absolutely nuts When people say I don’t have time to work out Have me heard that many times I don’t have time to work out or I have worked so [hard] all [day] I’m [tired] I cannot work out anymore [oh], I cannot read another book or I cannot improve myself I don’t have time or [I] work so hard that I cannot really improve [my] business Or I cannot grow as a person or any of those things What the hell are we talking about here? I mean today is 24 hours You sleep six hours, so you have 18 hours left I? Mean I know that some of you [out] there that say [well], [wait] a minute I sleep actually eight hours, but it’s just sleep fast though, okay You know I mean let’s not get bogged down with this stuff here Listen Man I came to [the] United States I remember that I trained five hours a day every day and I was managing a construction business That was a bricklayer, and I went to college also And I took acting classes from 8 o’clock at night to 12 o’clock midnight All that in one day every day

I did that I Did not worry about it I knew that at 24 hours And I didn’t want to waste one single hour Because I believe of what Ted turner said who is one of the great entrepreneurs who started CnN? And so on he said really debate early to rise Drop like hell and advertise So that’s what I believe just remember you can climb that ladder of success with your hands in your Pockets you must work your ass off It’s that simple if my fifth and last rule is Don’t just take Give something back Leave your mark in the world [I] believe that we all have an obligation to do something for our community something for our state something for our country We must serve a cause that is greater than ourselves Because we all know that in the end We will be judged not [to] how much we made but the how much we give Ever since America greeted me with open arms I’ve had this sense of Responsibility and I felt applicators To give something back to America Because I know that everything [that] I have accomplished is because of America if it’s my bodybuilding career If it is my show business career my political career the money that it made My great family that [I] have all this is because of America But I have to recognize the fact that America did not become the land of opportunity in this great country by itself No in history people work tirelessly in America people [fought] and people died to make it the land of freedom and opportunity in the land of Liberty So now it is our responsibility If you want to keep it the number one [country] in the world to work for that and to give something back to this country, and it doesn’t matter if you’re in America if you’re in Australia Or if you enjoy no oven in Japan or in italy It is the same thing you all have to give something back to your country and [by] the way you’re from I Love the words of my father-in-law Sargent shriver We started the peace Corps the job Corps legal aid [to] the poor during the Kennedy and during the Johnson administration [he] was the number one public servant that he always inspired me to become a public servant He was one of my heroes He said at yale university at a commencement speech

He said to the students tear [down] that Mural Tear down that mirror that makes you always look at yourself and you will be able to look beyond that mirror and you will see the millions and millions of people that need your help [and] I saw those millions and millions of people and this is why I tried to take every opportunity that I could Look give something back I started training special Olympians people did when the lecture [lee] handicapped To help them with weightlifting in powerlifting I became the international powerlifting coach and the Torch bearer for special Olympics Then later on I joined the Simon wiesenthal center to fight prejudice so we don’t have the things happening again As we had during the second world war during the Nazi Reich and I Joined also the President’s council on Fitness that became the german on the president bush from 1990 to 1993 To be the German and to promote health and fitness in all 50 states that Robert all 50 states I started after-school programs for the most vulnerable children for Inner-City children To make them be able to say no to drugs no to gangs and no to violence and to say yes [to] education and yes to life and Every single time I reached out and I give something back I felt fantastic Nothing made me happier I would rather play chess with an [8] year [old] kid in an after-school program or play Golf a round of golf with a special olympian then goes down another red carpet of a movie premiere and have nothing Against movies, but to give something back to me is more important than just to think about myself Eventually the joy of giving back was so great that I decided To become a public servant full-time and to turn my back I should walk away from my career as an actor after finished promoting terminator 3 I Jumped into the race into the governor’s race in California in a rain for Ghana And even though my friends advised me not to do that They said are you crazy a note don’t you understand that you would lose now this 2030 million Dollars a movie that you’re getting paid And they will only pay you one hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars as governor a year or I didn’t care because [I] knew that all the money that have made and the being their position the first place to make this money is because of America It was time to give something back So I became governor, and I didn’t even take the hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars I gave it back to the taxpayers because it was petty cash the last thing I needed And I can tell you that those seven years were the most exciting and the most rewarding and the most gratifying years of my life To work all day long and solve problems and disturb the people was absolutely heaven It was the best job I’ve ever had But they also knew that eventually it’s going to come to an end and after two terms it did come to an end but then he came to an end the one thing that didn’t come to an anthem was not finished was my desire to be a Public Servant in to serve the people and this is why I continued to work for special Olympics [that’s] why I continued to work on Fighting my fitness crusade and traveling around the world to [promote] health and fitness This [is] why I continue to support after-school programs and we even started the Schwarzenegger institute at the University of Southern California to continue to inspire students and leaders around the world to find solutions to complicated issues and to give back To make the world a better place so because Thank you But I tell you That I was very fortunate that [I] had great heroes I Great heroes that I could look up to and I mentioned two of them muhammad Ali and Sargent shriver My father-in-law, but there’s other great heroes like Gorbachev reagan [Mandela] Great leaders like mother Teresa Chancellor, Kohl and Churchill and the list goes on and on I mean those people had such an impAct in the world Single-Handedly they’ve changed the world

[I] mean [if] you think about just gorbachev I mean this man every time I meet him I’m in awe [I] mean he grew up on the communism, and he rose from the bottom of the range straight up to the top Became president of the soviet Union one of the most powerful people in the world And he was the lead of the communist party and when he wasn’t in opposition He realized that the system was broken Now what do you do when you had the top leader of the communist party [and] he realized that the system that Communism doesn’t work Well, you know what they did he dismantled communism think about the courage that it takes I mean the guts that it takes to do that think about the gorbachev completely transformed his country with class knows to give his people for the first time freedom and Then sue Perestroika by reforming Russia’s economy He didn’t wait for the next president He didn’t complain he simply said if not me who and if not now when so I feel very strongly all of us needs to have and embrace that kind of a spirit We all can create change whether it is now, neighborhood or in our local schools or in our country it can’t be big But it can also be as little as [just] going to a school kid that is problems reading and teaching that kids of the read or how to do math We don’t have to just work on me We should also work on we Not just me, but also we remember that to lead a truly full life You must give back you must leave the world a better place than you found it The bottom line is it is up to us I mean those rules that have given you important Rules, but giving back is one of the most important Rules I Guarantee you that if you follow all those rules You will have many victories to celebrate you believe you know you work and you have extraordinary kind of a records and you will leave a legacy behind that you can be proud of So I want you to remember Those rules have a vision think big ignore the NaySayers Work your ass off and give back and change the world Because if not us who if not now when?

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