50+ Best Inspirational Movie Quotes to Motivate and Uplift Your Spirit

"Do, or do not. There is no "try"."

- Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

"Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period."

- Christopher Gardner

"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

- John Keating

"Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain't how hard you can hit. It's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It's how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done."

- Rocky Balboa

"Great men are not born great, they grow great."

- Don Vito Corleone

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

- Coach Carter

"Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It's the moments that take your breath away."

- Hitch

"There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."

- The Theory of Everything

"It's what you do right now that makes a difference."

- Black Hawk Down

"People all say that I've had a bad break. But today--today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

- Lou Gehrig

"Every man dies, but not every man really lives."

- William Wallace

"There should be no boundaries to human endeavour. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."

- Stephen Hawking

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done."

- Rocky Balboa

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"It’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."

- Samwise Gamgee

"In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody but yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back."

- Rudy

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are … it is our choices."

- Dumbledore

"There’s just no telling how far I’ll go."

- Moana

"You complete me."

- Jerry Maguire

"Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voila! ... Now, you might not feel like you can do much now, but that’s just because, well, you’re not a tree yet. You just have to give yourself some time. You’re still a seed."

- Flik

"Fear is the mind-killer."

- Paul Atreides

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

- Atticus Finch

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Today is a good day to try."

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."

- Forrest Gump

"There's no place like home."

- Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."

- Benjamin Button

"Kindness isn't weakness, but strength."

- Cinderella

"I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille."

- Norma Desmond

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. (Desmond Tutu)"

- Desmond Tutu

"You control your destiny – you don’t need magic to do it. And there are no magical shortcuts to solving your problems."

- Merida

"A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends."

- Niki Lauda

"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want."

- 10 Things I Hate About You

"The way it works is, you do the thing you're scared shitless of, and you get the courage AFTER you do it, not before you do it."

- Three Kings

"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life."

- Walter Mitty

"We can't retract the decisions we've made. We can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here."

- Law Abiding Citizen

"We walk away from our dreams afraid we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed."

- William Forrester

"When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you."

- Roy McAvoy

"You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'"

- The Bucket List

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."

- Eat, Pray, Love

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller

"You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to."

- Good Will Hunting

"Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear."

- Maximus

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

- Gandalf

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

"Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim."

- Dory

"Everything is possible, even the impossible."

- Mary Poppins

"It’s what you do right now that makes a difference."

- Jeff Struecker

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

- Fa Zhou

"Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn't mean they're lost forever."

- X-Men: Days of Future Past

"Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe."

- Selma

"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

- Alan Turing

"O captain, my captain."

- Todd (Dead Poets Society)

"Our survival instinct is our greatest source of inspiration."

- Matt Damon as Dr. Mann

"You know how everyone’s always saying, ‘Seize the moment’? I don’t know, I’m kinda thinkin’ it’s the other way. Like the moment seizes us."

- Nicole

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

- Fight Club

"Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one."

- Grandmother Willow

"Let’s just allow ourselves to be whatever it is we are."

- Andrew Largeman

"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"

- It's a Wonderful Life

"When you get a different vantage point, it changes your perspective ... It allows us to see things that maybe we should have seen a long time ago."

- Neil Armstrong

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"

- Gone with the Wind (1939)

"To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there will be some advantage in finding it."

- Jude Law as Jack Burden

"If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead."

- Ratatouille

"A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have."

- Roger Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

"The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up."

- Dumbo

"How many times do I have to teach you: just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved."

- Shuri

"May the Force be with you."

- Star Wars

"Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."

- Inception

"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"

- White Heat (1949)

"You don't need a compass to find your direction in life."

- North Star

"The stuff that dreams are made of."

- The Maltese Falcon (1941)

"Hope is not a strategy."

- August Walker

"It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

- Rick Blaine

"If you build it, he will come."

- Field of Dreams (1989)

"Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna , go, go!"

- On Golden Pond (1981)

"Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."

- Knute Rockne--All American (1940)

"My mother thanks you; my father thanks you; my sister thanks you; and I thank you."

- George M. Cohan (Yankee Doodle Dandy)

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

- Dirty Dancing

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

- The Usual Suspects

"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

- The Pride of the Yankees (1943)

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

- Network (1976)

"Show me the money!"

- Jerry Maguire (1996)

"You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."

- On the Waterfront (1954)

"They call me Mister Tibbs!"

- In the Heat of the Night (1967)

"Hasta la vista, baby."

- Terminator 2: Judgement Day

"My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Forrest Gump (1994)

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

- Love Story (1970)

"Elementary, my dear Watson."

- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

- Dirty Harry (1971)

"I'll be back."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

- Casablanca (1942)

"I want to be alone."

- Grand Hotel (1932)

"You can't handle the truth!"

- A Few Good Men (1992)

"You talking to me?"

- Taxi Driver (1976)

"Yo, Adrian!"

- Rocky (1976)

"Bond. James Bond."

- Dr. No (1963)

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

- Rhett Butler (Clark Gable)

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

- The Godfather (1972)

"Nobody’s perfect."

- Osgood Fielding III

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

- The Wizard of Oz (1939)

"You had me at "hello.""

- Jerry Maguire (1996)

"I stick my neck out for nobody."

- Rick Blaine

"Houston, we have a problem."

- Apollo 13

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

- Tennessee Williams

"I am big! It's the pictures that got small."

- Sunset Blvd. (1950)

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

- Sun Tzu

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

- Gone with the Wind (1939)

"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."

- Now, Voyager (1942)

"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"

- 42nd Street (1933)

"Go ahead, make my day."

- Sudden Impact (1983)

"Hello, gorgeous."

- Funny Girl (1968)

"There's no crying in baseball!"

- Tom Hanks (as Jimmy Dugan in "A League of Their Own")

"Here's looking at you, kid."

- Casablanca (1942)

"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

- Sunset Blvd. (1950)

"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."

- All About Eve (1950)

"What we've got here is failure to communicate."

- Cool Hand Luke (1967)

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

- Apocalypse Now (1979)

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"

- Midnight Cowboy (1969)

"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time goes By.'"

- Casablanca (1942)

"Round up the usual suspects."

- Casablanca (1942)

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."

- To Have and Have Not (1944)

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

- Jaws (1975)

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"

- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

"We'll always have Paris."

- Casablanca (1942)

"Well, nobody's perfect."

- Some Like It Hot (1959)

"Say "hello" to my little friend!"

- Scarface (1983)

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape."

- Planet of the Apes (1968)

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

- Casablanca (1942)

"Here's Johnny!"

- The Shining (1980)

"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."

- Dracula (1931)

"My precious."

- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"

- The Wizard of Oz (1939)

"Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."

- King Kong (1933)

"La-dee-da, la-dee-da."

- Annie Hall (1977)

"I'll have what she's having."

- When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"

- Little Caesar (1931)

"Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."

- Chinatown (1974)

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"

- The Graduate (1967)

"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"

- Sons of the Desert (1933)

"Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL."

- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

"What a dump."

- Beyond the Forest (1949)

"Striker: Surely you can't be serious."

- Airplane! (1980)

"A boy's best friend is his mother."

- Psycho (1960)

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."

- Animal Crackers (1930)

"Rosebud."

- Citizen Kane (1941)

"E.T. phone home."

- E.T.

"Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"

- She Done Him Wrong (1933)

"They're here!"

- Poltergeist (1982)

"Is it safe?"

- Marathon Man (1976)

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!"

- The Jazz Singer (1927)

"No wire hangers, ever!"

- Mommie Dearest (1981)

"We rob banks."

- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

"Plastics."

- The Graduate (1967)

"I see dead people."

- The Sixth Sense (1999)

"Stella! Hey, Stella!"

- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

"Shane. Shane. Come back!"

- Shane (1953)

"Soylent Green is people!"

- Soylent Green (1973)

"It's alive! It's alive!"

- Frankenstein (1931)

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good."

- Wall Street (1987)

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Attica! Attica!"

- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

"Toga! Toga!"

- National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

"Who's on first."

- The Naughty Nineties (1945)

"A martini. Shaken, not stirred."

- Goldfinger (1964)

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the light."

"I'm the king of the world!"

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

"May the odds be ever in your favor."

"You want to get out of the hole? First you’re going to have to put down the shovel."

"I feel on the verge of madness or greatness."

"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"

"I feel the need - the need for speed!"

"Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"

"My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you."

"Snap out of it!"

"Persist to conquer your dreams."

"Be bold. A crisis reveals the real leader among a tribe of followers."

"Your actions speak louder than words."

"Find the ‘stage’ where your passions can flow."

"Don’t let uncertainty get in the way of your goals."

"Just Do It…"

"The World Is Yours."

"Find your own voice, your own identity."

"Know Thyself. Elevate your Being."

"Never give up, never surrender."

"Don’t be too hard on yourself. You are still ‘work in progress’"

"Embrace failure. Use it to propel forward."

"Expect the unexpected. Be open minded."