Absolute Motivation - NEVER GIVE UP | Arnold Schwarzenegger - Best Motivational Speech Video 2020

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

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Early to bathe, early to rise. Just remember, you can't climb that ladder of success with your hands in your pocket. Always tell people that you can call me anything that you want. You can call me Arnold, you can call me Schwarzenegger, you can call me the Austrian Oak, you can call me Schwarzy, you can call me Ani, but don't ever, ever call me a self-made man. I didn't make it that far my own. I mean to accept that credit or that matter would discount every single person that has helped me to get here today.

Listen, when I came to the United States, I remember that I trained five hours a day, every day, and I was managing a construction business, I 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 one day, every day at the time. I did not worry about it. I knew that I had 24 hours and I didn't want to waste one single hour. The bottom line is if I would have

listened to the naysayers, my career would have ended when I was 15 years old. I would be still yodling in Austria in the Alps. And the reason why I'm here today and talking to you is because I did not listen to you can't or it's impossible or no.

So I just recommend you very strongly ignore the naysayers. So shoot to the top, shoot for the sky. Work like hell. Trust yourself. Break some rules. Don't be afraid to fail. That's what life is all about.

It's overcoming absolute. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original. If you're too well behaved and not want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe after all. What is the point of being on this world? If all you want to do is be like by everyone and avoid trouble. That out of the 24 hours of the day,

they don't waste one single hour. Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. I was poor because I didn't have anything. But I was rich because I had a dream. Anything and everything can be done if you can visualize it, if you believe in yourself. No matter how successful you are, life will throw obstacles in your path.

But if you have a very clear vision of exactly what you want to do and who do you want to be, you can go and find a way around all of these obstacles. If you think that you're going to go and accomplish something really special and be the best in anything in the world, and you think you can do it without working, you make a big mistake. Where I got hurt, that was in pain, in agony, and had to do it over, and you had to do it over, and you think you can do it, and you can do it. and had to do it over and over again. I did not care if I was bleeding on my knees

because I know that pain is temporary. Always discover your vision and the rest will follow. Being in muscles and aching and just then go on, and go on and go on and then divides them one from a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can go through,

I'm having the guts, the guts go in and just say I go through and I don't care what happens. If you only remember one thing that there it is, you must have a very clear vision, you must develop that very clear vision. Ask yourself who do you want to be, not what, but who. You see, a disaster can change what you are. You can still jobs and force you inside. It is who you are that rises in the face of aversal. What stands in the way becomes the way.

So whenever someone said to me, it can't be done, I heard, it can be done. When they say, no, I heard yes. When they said it's impossible, I heard, it is possible. I looked forward to, I looked forward to another thousand reps of citizens. I looked forward to another 500 pounds of leg breast or squat. I looked forward to it more and more curls until my arms fall off. Why? Because I knew that every rep that I did, and every set that I did,

and more weights that I lifted, I get one step closer to turning their vision into reality. It's possible. That can't be done or no. Don't listen. Just visualize your core, know exactly where you want to go. Trust yourself. get out there and work like hell and break some of the rules

and never ever be afraid of failure this is the blueprint for my life this is exactly what I want to do because when you have a goal when you have a vision everything becomes easy the majority of people

don't like what they're doing because they're really not doing it because they didn't have a goal and they followed this goal it's real it's not fun So if you think about only a quarter of the people really enjoy what they're doing in life, you've got to have a purpose, no matter what you're doing life, you've got to have a purpose.

Of course, there's a chance that you can fail. When you lift the weight, I tried 10 times to lift, bench press 500 pounds. And I failed, but the 11th time I did it. So never give up and never be afraid of failure because otherwise you box yourself in and you limit yourself. I was never afraid to fail when I ran for governor. I was never afraid to fail to tackle anything because you should not be afraid of failure. That's just part of life.

I mean, people should just realize that a lot of things in life that are difficult. And you have to ask yourself the question right off the top, you know, are you going to be one of those guys that are going to go and back off every time somebody is difficult? All do you want to be one of those guys that says, it doesn't matter if it's easy or difficult, or most difficult, I'm going to go and crush through it. That's me. That's the person that I want to be, and I'm going to prove it to myself and I'm going to move it to the rest of the world.

That you don't ask yourself, should I or shouldn't. You just do it. That we can do it alone. None of us can. The whole concept of the self-made man or woman is a myth. As soon as you understand that you are here because of a lot of help, then you also understand that now is time to help others. Tear down this mirror.

Tear down this mirror that makes you always look at yourself, and you will be able to look beyond this mirror and see the millions of people that need your help. have a clear vision where you want to go what is it that you're really passionate about and then go after that no matter what it takes go after that as crazy as it may sound

because you've got to do something that you really enjoy doing life will be always about obstacles in front of you and it is the way to overcome this obstacle because there's nothing unusual that's the way it is so when you know your vision

every setback and be stepping to start Every struggle, all resistance, builds your inner strength, builds your character, makes you strong as a person. When you have one little victory, little victories add up and that is what gives you then ultimately confidence. Embrace the climb that's your vision and not just the self-y to take you the top. Because the climb is what makes you grow and build who you want to be. It's the climb. Just start developing your vision.

and it's time to start climbing towards that vision.