Timeless Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Famous Inspirational Movie Quotes

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

- Desmond Tutu

"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

"Do, or do not. There is no “try”."

- Yoda

"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."

- Stephen Hawking

"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."

- To Kill a Mockingbird

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

- Alan Turing

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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."

- Timo Cruz

"May the Force be with you."

- Star Wars

"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

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

- William Wallace

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

- Rhett Butler (Clark Gable)

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

- Dory

"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."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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?’"

- Morgan Freeman as Carter Chambers

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

- Roy McAvoy

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

- William Forrester

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

- Jamie Foxx

"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."

- Archie Gates

"Show me the money!"

- Jerry Maguire (1996)

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

- Professor X

"With great power comes great responsibility."

- Voltaire

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

- Heath Ledger

"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

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

- Niki Lauda

"Bond. James Bond."

- Dr. No (1963)

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

- Forrest Gump

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

- Alex Hitch

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

- Don Vito Corleone

"There’s no place like home."

- Judy Garland as Dorothy

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

- Benjamin Button

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

- Forrest Gump

"Fear is the mind-killer."

- Paul Atreides

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

- Sun Tzu

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

- John Keating

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

- Jeff Struecker

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

- Network (1976)

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

- White Heat (1949)

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

- Norma Desmond

"Go ahead, make my day."

- Sudden Impact (1983)

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

- The Godfather (1972)

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"

- Gone with the Wind (1939)

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Knute Rockne--All American (1940)

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

- The Pride of the Yankees (1943)

"Yo, Adrian!"

- Rocky (1976)

"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)

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

- 42nd Street (1933)

"I'll be back."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You had me at "hello.""

- Jerry Maguire (1996)

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

- Forrest Gump (1994)

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

- Dirty Harry (1971)

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

- Gone with the Wind (1939)

"You can't handle the truth!"

- A Few Good Men (1992)

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

- Shuri

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

"You is kind. You is smart. You is important."

- The Help

"The greatest thing you will ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."

- Moulin Rouge

"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together … and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home. .. only to no home I’d ever known … I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like … magic."

- Sleepless in Seattle

"There's no place like home."

- Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

"Here's looking at you, kid."

- Casablanca (1942)

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

- Amy March

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

- Fight Club

"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."

- Fortune

"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?"

- Clarence Odbody, the guardian angel

"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

"Hope is not a strategy."

- August Walker

"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)

"You talking to me?"

- Taxi Driver (1976)

"The stuff that dreams are made of."

- The Maltese Falcon (1941)

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

- Casablanca (1942)

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

- Selma

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

- Ferris Bueller

"I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?"

- Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

"If you're a bird, I'm a bird."

- The Notebook

"To me, you are perfect."

- Love Actually

"You're a wizard, Harry."

- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"Nobody’s perfect."

- Osgood Fielding III

"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."

- Big Fish

"Elementary, my dear Watson."

- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

"Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to."

- Miracle on 34th Street

"We fell in love, despite our differences, and something rare and beautiful was created."

- The Notebook

"I can't see anything I don't like about you."

- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

"I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame."

- Atonement

"I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where."

- Patch Adams

"I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all."

- 10 Things I Hate About You

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

- Love Story (1970)

"I wish I knew how to quit you."

- Brokeback Mountain

"You had me at ‘hello.’"

- Jerry Maguire

"I’m king of the world!"

- Titanic

"Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up."

- Hope Floats

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

- Jaws (1975)

"You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."

- It's a Wonderful Life

"If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love is actually all around."

- Love Actually

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

- Inception

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Brontë

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

- The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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

- Ratatouille

"Our love is like the wind... I can't see it, but I sure can feel it."

- A Walk to Remember

"Adventure is out there."

- Up

"Houston, we have a problem."

- Apollo 13

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

- Charlotte Vale

"We'll always have Paris."

- Casablanca (1942)

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

- Apocalypse Now (1979)

"I knew I’d never be able to remember what Nina wore that day. But I also knew I’d never forget the way she looked."

- Father of the Bride

"It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"If you’re worried and you can’t sleep, count your blessings instead of sheep. Then you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings."

- White Christmas

"Just remember, the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart."

- The Polar Express

"I wish I had done everything on earth with you."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly."

- You've Got Mail

"I think I'd miss you even if we'd never met."

- The Wedding Date

"Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t you forget it."

- On Golden Pond

"I never look back, darling! It distracts from the now."

- The Incredibles

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

- Dumbo

"A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same."

- Fried Green Tomatoes

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

- Sunset Blvd. (1950)

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

- Casablanca (1942)

"It’s a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart."

- O Brother Where Art Thou

"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)

"Are you not entertained?"

- Gladiator

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

- Sunset Blvd. (1950)

"Why so serious?"

- The Dark Knight

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

- Tennessee Williams

"Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, upon, which the entire kid year revolved."

- A Christmas Story

"There's no crying in baseball!"

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

"I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all really. Maybe it just needs a little love."

- A Charlie Brown Christmas

"You can mess with a lot of things. But you can’t mess with kids on Christmas."

- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

"That'll do, pig. That'll do."

- Babe

"My precious."

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

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

- Dirty Dancing

"You have no idea what I'm capable of."

- Transformers

"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?

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

- All About Eve (1950)

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

- Midnight Cowboy (1969)

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

- Cool Hand Luke (1967)

"I should’ve quit when I was behind."

- Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

"They call me Mister Tibbs!"

- In the Heat of the Night (1967)

"Hasta la vista, baby."

- Terminator 2: Judgement Day

"Round up the usual suspects."

- Casablanca (1942)

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

- When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

"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)

"It is, Rick says, "the beginning of a beautiful friendship.""

- Rick

"I see dead people."

- The Sixth Sense (1999)

"Shane. Shane. Come back!"

- Shane (1953)

"Well, nobody's perfect."

- Some Like It Hot (1959)

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

- Frankenstein (1931)

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

- Wall Street (1987)

"Say "hello" to my little friend!"

- Scarface (1983)

"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)

"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)

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

- The Jazz Singer (1927)

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

- Chinatown (1974)

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

- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

"Surely you can't be serious."

- Striker

"Hello, gorgeous."

- Funny Girl (1968)

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

- King Kong (1933)

"Attica! Attica!"

- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

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

- Now, Voyager (1942)

"Is it safe?"

- Marathon Man (1976)

"Stella! Hey, Stella!"

- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

"A martini. Shaken, not stirred."

- Goldfinger (1964)

"Soylent Green is people!"

- Soylent Green (1973)

"Toga! Toga!"

- National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

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

- Dracula (1931)

"I want to be alone."

- Grand Hotel (1932)

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

- Little Caesar (1931)

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

- She Done Him Wrong (1933)

"Plastics."

- The Graduate (1967)

"We rob banks."

- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

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

- Airplane! (1980)

"No wire hangers, ever!"

- Mommie Dearest (1981)

"They're here!"

- Poltergeist (1982)

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

- The Graduate (1967)

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

- To Have and Have Not (1944)

"What a dump."

- Beyond the Forest (1949)

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

- Sons of the Desert (1933)

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

- Psycho (1960)

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

- Annie Hall (1977)

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

- Animal Crackers (1930)

"E.T. phone home."

- E.T.

"You’re killin’ me, Smalls."

- The Sandlot

"Honey, just cause I talk slow doesn't mean I'm stupid."

- Sweet Home Alabama

"Rosebud."

- Citizen Kane (1941)

"Talk to me, Goose."

- Top Gun

"Who's on first."

- The Naughty Nineties (1945)

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

- Matt Damon as Dr. Mann

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

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

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

"Never give up, never surrender."

"Embrace failure. Use it to propel forward."

"Persist to conquer your dreams."

"May the odds be ever in your favor."

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

"Kindness isn’t weakness, but strength."

"Happiness is only real when shared."

"Just Do It…"

"I'm the king of the world!"

"Find your own voice, your own identity."

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

"Your actions speak louder than words."

"Know Thyself. Elevate your Being."

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

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

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

"Expect the unexpected. Be open minded."

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

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

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

"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!"

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

"I suppose it all started with the snow. You see, it was a very special kind of snow. A snow that made the happy happier, and the giddy even giddier. A snow that’d make a homecoming homier, and natural enemies, friends, natural."

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

"Snap out of it!"