Timeless Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Famous Movie Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"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

"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

"May the Force be with you."

- Star Wars

"Do, or do not. There is no “try”."

- Yoda

"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.

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

- Forrest Gump (1994)

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

- Network (1976)

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

- William Wallace

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

- John Keating

"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

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

- Alan Turing

"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

"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

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"

- Gone with the Wind (1939)

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

- Albus Dumbledore

"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

"Show me the money!"

- Jerry Maguire (1996)

"Houston, we have a problem."

- Apollo 13

"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

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

- Sun Tzu

"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

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

- Rhett Butler (Clark Gable)

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

- The Help

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

- Gandalf

"You can't handle the truth!"

- A Few Good Men (1992)

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

- Fa Zhou

"Everything is possible, even the impossible."

- Mary Poppins

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

- Dory

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

- Dumbledore

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

- Jeff Struecker

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

- Knute Rockne--All American (1940)

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

- Planet of the Apes (1968)

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

- Gone with the Wind (1939)

"With great power comes great responsibility."

- Voltaire

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

- Wall Street (1987)

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

- Moulin Rouge

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

- Dirty Harry (1971)

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

- Dirty Dancing

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

- Now, Voyager (1942)

"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

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

- Merida

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

- Stephanie Perkins

"Fear is the mind-killer."

- Paul Atreides

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

- Forrest Gump

"There’s no place like home."

- Judy Garland as Dorothy

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

- Yoda

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

- Niki Lauda

"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

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

- Casablanca (1942)

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

- Forrest Gump

"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

"Elementary, my dear Watson."

- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

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

- Benjamin Button

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

- Don Vito Corleone

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

- Alex Hitch

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

- Heath Ledger

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

- Professor X

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

- Jamie Foxx

"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?’"

- Morgan Freeman as Carter Chambers

"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 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)

"Go ahead, make my day."

- Sudden Impact (1983)

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

- Casablanca (1942)

"Bond. James Bond."

- Dr. No (1963)

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

- The Wizard of Oz (1939)

"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

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

- Emily Brontë

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

- Sunset Blvd. (1950)

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

- A Walk to Remember

"You talking to me?"

- Taxi Driver (1976)

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

- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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

- White Heat (1949)

"I wish I knew how to quit you."

- Brokeback Mountain

"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

"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

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

- Fight Club

"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

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

- You’ve Got Mail

"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 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

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

- Patch Adams

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

- Ratatouille

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

- Atonement

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

- Casablanca (1942)

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

- The Notebook

"Today is a good day to try."

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

"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

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

- Maximus

"You're a wizard, Harry."

- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"To me, you are perfect."

- Love Actually

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

- The Notebook

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

- Love Actually

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

- Midnight Cowboy (1969)

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

- Shuri

"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

"You had me at "hello.""

- Jerry Maguire (1996)

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

- Grandmother Willow

"You had me at ‘hello.’"

- Jerry Maguire

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

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

- Amy March

"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?

"Well, nobody's perfect."

- Some Like It Hot (1959)

"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

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

- Moana

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

- Andrew Largeman

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

- Dumbo

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Selma

"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

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

- The Incredibles

"Here's looking at you, kid."

- Casablanca (1942)

"There's no crying in baseball!"

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

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

- Miracle on 34th Street

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

- Sunset Blvd. (1950)

"Round up the usual suspects."

- Casablanca (1942)

"Hope is not a strategy."

- August Walker

"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 alive! It's alive!"

- Frankenstein (1931)

"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)

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

- The Jazz Singer (1927)

"Yo, Adrian!"

- Rocky (1976)

"The stuff that dreams are made of."

- The Maltese Falcon (1941)

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

- Inception

"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

"Adventure is out there."

- Up

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

- Ferris Bueller

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

- Rick Blaine

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

- All About Eve (1950)

"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

"They call me Mister Tibbs!"

- In the Heat of the Night (1967)

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

- Cool Hand Luke (1967)

"You can't change who people are without destroying who they were."

- The Butterfly Effect

"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

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

- O Brother Where Art Thou

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

- Fried Green Tomatoes

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

- The Polar Express

"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

"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."

- Frank Cross, Scrooged

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

- A Christmas Story

"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

"I see dead people."

- The Sixth Sense (1999)

"I should’ve quit when I was behind."

- Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

"Shane. Shane. Come back!"

- Shane (1953)

"Here's Johnny!"

- The Shining (1980)

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

- Babe

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

- Jaws (1975)

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

- Chinatown (1974)

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

- Psycho (1960)

"Why so serious?"

- The Dark Knight

"Are you not entertained?"

- Gladiator

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

- Sons of the Desert (1933)

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

- Transformers

"Nobody’s perfect."

- Osgood Fielding III

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

- The Graduate (1967)

"the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

- Rick

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

- She Done Him Wrong (1933)

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

- Matt Damon as Dr. Mann

"I stick my neck out for nobody."

- Rick Blaine

"We'll always have Paris."

- Casablanca (1942)

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

- Love Story (1970)

"E.T. phone home."

- E.T.

"They're here!"

- Poltergeist (1982)

"Rosebud."

- Citizen Kane (1941)

"Hasta la vista, baby."

- Terminator 2: Judgement Day

"I want to be alone."

- Grand Hotel (1932)

"Stella! Hey, Stella!"

- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

"Talk to me, Goose."

- Top Gun

"You’re killin’ me, Smalls."

- The Sandlot

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

- Animal Crackers (1930)

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

- Sweet Home Alabama

"What a dump."

- Beyond the Forest (1949)

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

- The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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

- To Have and Have Not (1944)

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

- King Kong (1933)

"My precious."

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

"Is it safe?"

- Marathon Man (1976)

"No wire hangers, ever!"

- Mommie Dearest (1981)

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

- Little Caesar (1931)

"Hello, gorgeous."

- Funny Girl (1968)

"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)

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

- When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

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

- The Pride of the Yankees (1943)

"I'll be back."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"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)

"If you build it, he will come."

- Field of Dreams (1989)

"We rob banks."

- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

"Plastics."

- The Graduate (1967)

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

- Airplane! (1980)

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

- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

"A martini. Shaken, not stirred."

- Goldfinger (1964)

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

- Dracula (1931)

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

- Annie Hall (1977)

"Toga! Toga!"

- National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

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

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

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

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

"May the odds be ever in your favor."

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

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

"I'm the king of the world!"

"Happiness is only real when shared."

"Kindness isn’t weakness, but strength."

"Snap out of it!"

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

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

"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!"

"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."