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“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“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
“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger