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50 Life Changing Inspirational Movies Quotes

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10 months ago

July 12, 2023

Looking for great inspirational movies quotes? You can’t go wrong with any of these films.

If you find yourself needing a pick-me-up when life gets a bit rough, here are some of our favorite quotes from some of the biggest hit movies to motivate and inspire you to keep on trucking. Even when it’s all starting to feel a bit pointless, sometimes you just need a bit of encouragement to turn your day around.

In this article, RNN will make you discover some truly inspirational movie quotes from your favorite characters to help you stay motivated.

Movies Quotes

1. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Movie quote: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
– Ferris Bueller

2. Forrest Gump (1994)

Movie quote: “My momma always said, Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”
– Tom Hanks as Forrest Gum

3. Fight Club (1999)

Movie quote: “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
– Tyler Durden

4. Finding Forrestor (2000)

“We walk away from our dreams afraid we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.”
– William Forrester

5. The Fast and the Furious (2001)

“I live my life a quarter-mile at a time.”
– Dominic Toretto

6. Finding Nemo (2003)

“When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming.”
– Dory

7. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

Movie quote: “Do, or do not. There is no “try”.

– Yoda

8. Braveheart

“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”

–William Wallace

9. 10 Things I Hate About You

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

–Heath Ledger

10. The Godfather

Movie Quote: “Great men are not born great, they grow great.”

–Mario Puzo

11. Rudy

Movie quote: “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

12. Black Hawk Down

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

–Struecker

13. X-Men: Days of Future Past

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

–Professor X

14. Hitch

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

–Alex Hitchens

15. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

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

–Ferris Bueller

16. Rocky Balboa

“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

17. Coach Carter

Movie quote: “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

18. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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

–Benjamin Button

19. Selma

“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.

20. The Imitation Game

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

–Alan Turing

21. It’s a Wonderful Life

“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 The Angel

22. Three Kings

“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

23. The Theory of Everything

“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

24. All the King’s Men

“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.”

–Jack Burden

25. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“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

26. Law Abiding Citizen

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

–Nick Rice

27. Finding Forrester

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

–William Forrester

28. Tin Cup

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

–Roy McAvoy

29. The Bucket List

“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?’”

–Carter Chambers

30. Eat, Pray, Love

“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 badly, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”

–Richard

31. Inception (2010)

“You mustn’t be afraid to dream up a little bigger, darling.”
– Tom Hardy as Eames

32. The Imitation Game (2014)

“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine.”
– Alan Turing

33. Interstellar (2014)

“Our survival instinct is our greatest source of inspiration.”
– Matt Damon as Dr. Mann

34. Kissing a Fool (1998)

“Love cannot be found where it doesn’t exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.”
– Max Abbitt

35. The Lion King (1994)

“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it.”
– Rafiki

36. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring (2001)

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
– Gandalf

37. Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

“We can’t retract the decisions we’ve made. We can only affect the decisions we’re going to make from here.”
– Jamie Foxx

38. Moonlight (2016)

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

39. The Notebook (2004)

“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

40. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

“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

41. Paper Towns (2015)

“You have to get lost before you find yourself.”
– Margo

42. Rudy (1993)

“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

43. Rocky Balboa (2006)

44. Rush (2013)

“A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
– Niki Lauda

45. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

46. Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins Returns

“Everything is possible, even the impossible.”

47. Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

48. Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
“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.”

49. Bob Harris in Lost in Translation
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

50. Merida in Brave
“You control your destiny – you don’t need magic to do it. And there are no magical shortcuts to solving your problems.”

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