100 Most Inspirational Movie Quotes to Motivate and Uplift Your Spirit

"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

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

- John Keating

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Merida

"Today is a good day to try."

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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

- Fa Zhou

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

- Dumbledore

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

- Gandalf

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

- Alan Turing

"There's no place like home."

- Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

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

- Forrest Gump

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

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Alex Hitch

"There’s no place like home."

- Judy Garland as Dorothy

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

- Forrest Gump

"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

"Fear is the mind-killer."

- Paul Atreides

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Selma

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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

"May the Force be with you."

- Star Wars

"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

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

- Matt Damon as Dr. Mann

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

- William Wallace

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

- Professor X

"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.

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

- William Forrester

"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

"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

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

- Maximus

"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

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

- Stephanie Perkins

"You had me at ‘hello.’"

- Jerry Maguire

"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

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

- Inception

"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

"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

"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

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

- Heath Ledger

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

- Ratatouille

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

- Grandmother Willow

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

- The Notebook

"To me, you are perfect."

- Love Actually

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

- A Walk to Remember

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

- Emily Brontë

"I wish I knew how to quit you."

- Brokeback Mountain

"You're a wizard, Harry."

- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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

- Jeff Struecker

"Here's looking at you, kid."

- Casablanca (1942)

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

- Sun Tzu

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

- Miracle on 34th Street

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

- Love Actually

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

- The Notebook

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

- Jamie Foxx

"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

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

- Dirty Dancing

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

- Fried Green Tomatoes

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

- O Brother Where Art Thou

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

- Benjamin Button

"I’m king of the world!"

- Titanic

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

- Don Vito Corleone

"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?

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

- The Polar Express

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

- Jaws (1975)

"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 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

"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

"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

"I should’ve quit when I was behind."

- Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

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

- Shuri

"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

"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

"Nobody’s perfect."

- Osgood Fielding III

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

- Moana

"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

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

- Sweet Home Alabama

"My precious."

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

"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

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

"May the odds be ever in your favor."

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

"Kindness isn’t weakness, but strength."

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

"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."