Inspiring Movie Quotes to Ignite Your Passion

"Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Ian

"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

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

- Niki Lauda

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

- Yoda

"Get busy living, or get busy dying."

- Andy Dufresne

"We are who we choose to be."

- Green Goblin

"After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are."

- Shrek

"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

"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.

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

- Roy McAvoy

"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

"I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you."

- Bryan Mills

"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

"I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way."

- Jessica Rabbit

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

- Grandmother Willow

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

- John Keating

"There’s no place like home."

- Judy Garland as Dorothy

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

- Benjamin Button

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

- Fight Club

"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

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

- Matt Damon as Dr. Mann

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

- Heath Ledger

"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

"You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours."

- White Queen

"It’s not destroying. It’s making something new."

- Natalie Portman as Lena

"All those moments will be lost in time… Like tears in rain."

- Roy Batty

"We all end up dead, it’s just a question of how and why."

- William Wallace

"Only if you find peace within yourself will you find true connection with others."

- Palm Reader

"Why do we fall, Sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up."

- Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth

"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

"I know what I have to do now. I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"

- Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland

"If we didn’t do what we loved, we wouldn’t exist."

- Adonis Creed

"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"When you decide to be something, you can be it."

- Frank Costello

"The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming."

- Harvey Dent

"You had my curiosity. But now you have my attention."

- Calvin Candie

"When will the lesson be learned! You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!"

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump

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

- William Forrester

"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time."

- Dominic Toretto

"When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming."

- Dory

"When you're down here in the crowd and you look up, it looks pretty big and you don't think about it too much. But when you get a different vantage point it changes your perspective."

- Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong

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

- Sun Tzu

"Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first."

- Robin Williams

"What we do in life echoes in eternity."

- Russell Crowe as Maximus

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

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. Little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it’s contained."

- President Snow

"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

"When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it."

- Christopher McCandless

"You mustn’t be afraid to dream up little bigger, darling."

- Tom Hardy as Eames

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

- Alan Turing

"Love cannot be found where it doesn’t exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does."

- Max Abbitt

"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it."

- Rafiki

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

- Gandalf

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

- Jamie Foxx

"At some point, you’ve got to decide for yourself who you gonna be, can’t let anybody make that decision for you."

- Juan

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds."

- Noah Calhoun

"Hey. Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something. Not even me. Alright? You got a 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."

- Will Smith as Chris Gardner

"You have to get lost before you find yourself."

- Margo

"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

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

- Professor X

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it."

- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort

"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

"Everything is possible, even the impossible."

- Mary Poppins

"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

"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

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

- Fa Zhou

"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

"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

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

- Jeff Struecker

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

- Amy March

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

- Forrest Gump

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

- Moana

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

- Stephanie Perkins

"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

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

- Andrew Largeman

"Today is a good day to try."

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Ferris Bueller

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

- A.A. Milne

"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."

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

"Kindness isn’t weakness, but strength."

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

"May the odds be ever in your favor."

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

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

"Know Thyself. Elevate your Being."

"Find your own voice, your own identity."

"Its your actions that will define your space in this world…"

"Your actions speak louder than words."

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

"Nobody said it would be easy…."

"Persist to conquer your dreams."

"Embrace failure. Use it to propel forward."

"Never give up, never surrender."

"But you have to be bold, fearless and mindful…."

"Just Do It…"

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

"Expect the unexpected. Be open minded."

"And, don’t forget that there is always hope…"

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