Timeless Inspiration: 50+ Powerful Quotes from Iconic Movies

"Do, or do not. There is no “try”."

- Yoda

"The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place, and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you get hit; it’s about how hard you get hit, and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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.

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

- Gandalf

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

- Dumbledore

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

- Albus Dumbledore

"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

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

- John Keating

"Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always."

- Ben Kingsley

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

- Dory

"I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... To make each day count."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- William Wallace

"Big things have small beginnings, sir."

- Peter O'Toole

"Everything is possible, even the impossible."

- Mary Poppins

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

- Fa Zhou

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

- Forrest Gump

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

- Roy McAvoy

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

- Ratatouille

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

- Merida

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

- Desmond Tutu

"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

"Fear is the mind-killer."

- Paul Atreides

"At some point you've got to decide who wanna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you."

- Mahershala Ali

"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

"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

"For the sake of all that we ourselves hold dear, and of the world’s order and peace, it is unthinkable that we should refuse to meet the challenge. It is to this high purpose that I now call my people at home and my peoples across the seas, who will make our cause their own. I ask them to stand calm and firm, and united in this time of trial."

- Colin Firth

"I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"It’s the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you."

- Hilary Swank

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

- Jeff Struecker

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

- Professor X

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

- Alex Hitch

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

- William Forrester

"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

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

- Alan Turing

"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

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

- Don Vito Corleone

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

- Heath Ledger

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

- Benjamin Button

"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

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

- Jamie Foxx

"Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind. But an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."

- Russell Crowe

"If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say. And a gentleman should always mean what he says."

- John Lone

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

- Shuri

"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

"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?

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

- Moana

"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

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

- Stephanie Perkins

"Today is a good day to try."

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"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

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Hitch

"Hope is not a strategy."

- August Walker

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

- Niki Lauda

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

- Andrew Largeman

"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

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

- Matt Damon as Dr. Mann

"Out with the old, in with the new! That's life!"

- Jean Dujardin

"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

"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

"Kindness isn't weakness, but strength."

- Cinderella

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

- Fight Club

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

- Inception

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

- The Usual Suspects

"Nobody’s perfect."

- Osgood Fielding III

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

- North Star

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Ferris Bueller

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

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

"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."

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

"Just Do It… Don’t let uncertainty get in the way of your goals. Expect the unexpected. Be open minded."

"Nobody said it would be easy…. Persist to conquer your dreams. Embrace failure. Use it to propel forward. Never give up, never surrender."

"If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you better get what you appreciate."

"May the odds be ever in your favor."

"Your actions speak louder than words."

"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"